--- RSM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I know it, "My bad" springs from the school > playground games of my youth: > Lost Angeles, SoCal, USA 1960's. It was an admitted > error, usually causing > a "do-over." For example, in handball, the server > was allowed one "bad" > before having to surrender the serve. Thus, if the > server would hit the ball > directly into the handball wall, he or she could > declare "my bad" and get a > "do-over." [On a related subject, does anyone > remember "tapping" for > exceptions and limitations to the games: "I tap no > slicers!"?]
Verrrry interrrresting. I thought maybe they were trying to say, "Am I bad!" and just screwed it up somehow, except, if that's the case, everyone's screwing it up the same way. If it's been around that long, I wonder why so many people are saying it now. I don't think they've been saying it all along and I only just noticed. Very weird how expressions get around the world so quickly and all of a sudden *everyone* is saying them. (I completely do not understand your "tapping" thing, by the way, but I always avoided sports like the plague, except for track and field.) ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
