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[Jonathan Lighter]

"Ratfucking" goes back to at least the early '60s, as HDAS may someday show.
It entered politics in the era of CREEP.

JL

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  A comment on the latest thread (well, only latest at the moment I
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> > Commenter jTuba at the Pandagon blog has created a new verb, "to
> > breitbart," meaning to maliciously edit videotapes for the purpose of
> > (here's another excellent pretty-recent verb that probably hasn't made
> > the OED yet) "ratfucking" political adversaries. That's a lot of
> > meaning concisely packed into two compact syllables; I like it!
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