Htil·Today I LearnedbyHypersapien TIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbustershttps://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/bill-murray-ghostbusters-toast.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world29Comments6
WWidowsFavoriteSon lemmy.world4Hide 4 repliesAbsolutely not true. We used that phrase as kids in the 60s.22
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆 replyyiffit.netIf only they had smart phones back then, to have a record of teenage slang.3
KKetchup replyreddthat.comIt is hard to believe it’s not been around longer. Waiting for the Oxford English professor to show us when Shakespeare first used it2
Absolutely not true. We used that phrase as kids in the 60s.
Are you telling me someone would just...lie? On the internet?
Did you document and publish your use of the phrase?
If only they had smart phones back then, to have a record of teenage slang.
It is hard to believe it’s not been around longer. Waiting for the Oxford English professor to show us when Shakespeare first used it