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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Aren't most of those "full phrases" made up inventions from Tumblr?

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[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Well, those two in particular were used heavily by my elders growing up in the 70s, so it predates the web by a little bit.

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 point 6 months ago

Well I guess I was mistaken in this case, I've just heard a lot of fake versions of these so I assumed this was the same

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