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G'day Bill,

I was wondering... have you ever defenestrated a cat?



























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Date : 03/10/97      Time : 00:05    Flags  : Public - Unread
From : wsmith{at}wordsmith.org          Subj   : A.Word.A.Day--defenestrat
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From: Wordsmith 
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--defenestration

de.fen.es.tra.tion  n [de- + L fenestra window] 1620 : a throwing of a
   person or thing out of a window


   Patt Morrison, California Dateline; Snapshots of life in the Golden
State; Made-for-Campaign Caper Gets Double Exposure; Home Edition., Los
Angeles Times, 09-02-1994, pp A-3.

   "The defenestration of Moscow: Idaho will not dignify with an
   answer--that is, file a response to--a $940,000 claim by a young San
   Jose man and his parents. The former student at the University of
   Idaho in Moscow, who was hurt when he `mooned' other students and
   fell out a window, argued in a lawsuit that the university was
   negligent for, among other failings, not warning students of the
   risks associated with upper-story dorm windows. Surely there's
   something in the student handbook about gravity and open windows,
   next to the warning about blow-dryers in the bathtub."

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Cheers,
Gaelyne

... I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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