eat flaming death

A construction popularised among hackers by the infamous CPUWars comic; supposedly derive from a famously turgid line in

a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming

death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or something of the sort (however,

it is also reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In

The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat

flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an

influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of

hostility. "Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users!"

[Jargon File]