[extropy-chat] IP: "So five minutes ago" stolen

[Harvey Newstrom]

Walter Purvis wrote,
> Stolen? Coined by a list member here? Please. The phrase "So 
> five minutes go" has been around for more than a decade -- it 
> appeared in the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, for 
> instance, and I doubt it was original then -- 
> and has been in widespread use for many years (I bet I've 
> seen it in at least a dozen articles in the past couple of years).

We do like to imagine that we are on the cutting edge or that we are
inventing new things on this list.  But in reality, I think we are only
responding to product announcements from technological firms, and we are
therefore slightly behind the curve, and only likely to repeat what someone
else has already said.

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