Twinkie
December 1, 2005, 10:22 AM
After taking up BeezzyBeez's suggestion about googling my name in relation to Caribyard, I came across this lovely story about me-ish.
On November 27th, 1978, Dan White a former San Francisco City supervisor had recently resigned his position, entered San Francisco's city hall by climbing through a basement window and then shot and killed both mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.
After White's subsequent trial for the murders, a new term entered the American lexicon: "Twinkie defense."
This phrase came to represent the efforts of criminals to avoid responsibility for their actions by claiming that some external force beyond their control had caused them to act the way they had, and it arose from the successful defense mounted by White's legal team that White's eating of Twinkies and other sugar-laden junk foods had diminished his mental capacity.
"Twinkie defense" is now a widespread and commonly-recognized term. It is also a term based on something that never happened.
Read More Here: http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm
On November 27th, 1978, Dan White a former San Francisco City supervisor had recently resigned his position, entered San Francisco's city hall by climbing through a basement window and then shot and killed both mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.
After White's subsequent trial for the murders, a new term entered the American lexicon: "Twinkie defense."
This phrase came to represent the efforts of criminals to avoid responsibility for their actions by claiming that some external force beyond their control had caused them to act the way they had, and it arose from the successful defense mounted by White's legal team that White's eating of Twinkies and other sugar-laden junk foods had diminished his mental capacity.
"Twinkie defense" is now a widespread and commonly-recognized term. It is also a term based on something that never happened.
Read More Here: http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm