http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html schadenfreude \SHAHD-n-froy-duh\, noun: A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others. The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life." --Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin." New York Times, February 5, 2000 Often the people Pi met in Mendocino wanted to hear these terrible stories, the personal disasters, or they quoted them back to her from what they'd read, with a certain glitter in their eyes -- giving Pi the chance to wonder again as she once had in a Wittgenstein seminar why there wasn't a word in English for Schadenfreude, that very human pleasure taken in other people's misery. --Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch If self-replicating e-commerce baby tycoons get on your nerves, it's schadenfreude time. It's true that the Nasdaq rebounded after its staggering loss Tuesday. Nonetheless, what AP described as "the most volatile day ever for U.S. stocks" left a distinctly bearish aftertaste. --"Market Motion Sickness." The Industry Standard's Media Grok, April 5, 2000 -- Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and girls.. It's schadenfreude Sweet Fucking schadenfreude Hot and cold running pools of schadenfreude And I love it. -- -- 如果医学是我的妻子，那棒球就是我的情妇. Tony Chiu, NTU Med 91 --

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