OT: Did Manute Bol invent "my bad"?

[Rastapopoulos]

Compelling evidence exists.

 

[Eastoff]

that is pretty cool!

 

[Ed O]

I remember reading a story in SI about Rex Chapman when he was at Kentucky. He was quoted as saying, "My bad" in the article.

Oh, damn. Thanks to my incredible memory and the powers of the Internetz... behold:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1127111/2/index.htm

"My bad, fellas," said Kentucky guard Rex Chapman, using playground parlance to apologize to his teammates at halftime after hitting one of six shots from the floor and one of six from the line against Maryland. But by game's end Chapman had 23 points, including three three-pointers. He and his back-court partner, the ever steady Ed Davender, combined for 99 points in Kentucky's 90-81 defeat of Maryland and its 99-84 win over Southern.

From the March 28, 1988 article.

In other words: evidence of Bol coining it in 1989 is worthless.

Ed O.

 

[ABM]

I remember reading a story in SI about Rex Chapman when he was at Kentucky. He was quoted as saying, "My bad" in the article.

Oh, damn. Thanks to my incredible memory and the powers of the Internetz... behold:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1127111/2/index.htm


From the March 28, 1988 article.

In other words: evidence of Bol coining it in 1989 is worthless.

Ed O.

Better yet..

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/my-bad.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa (beins that you're a lawyer, Ed. )