Oops, My Bad

Heather said something to me awhile ago that keeps proving more and more true. Awhile back she made some type of mistake and said "Oops, my bad". Then she stopped herself and said, that's something only old people say now, huh? I thought it funny at first, now I realize what a dead on analysis that was.

I attended oral arguments before the Supreme Court a few months ago and the case being beard before ours dealt with sentencing terms. The case also noted a procedural error by the prosecutor wherein he neglected to get evidence properly introduced at trial. After being questioned by the 5 Judge panel, the prosecutor came clean and said, "your honors, that was my bad". Whoa, never thought I would see the day. Which makes me wonder at what point the phrase became both dated and acceptable work place language? Just the other day in fact I was cc'd on an email from an attorney apologizing for not getting an agreement over to us, it was indeed "his bad".

When did this happen and does all language fall into this pattern. Was "Et tu, Brute" once a hip/popular saying, then eventually someone came along and said hey that is something only old people say, like Shakespeare.

Who knows.

In any case I hope everyone is having a good week. Perhaps you are even getting down with your bad selves by getting jiggy wit it?

That didn't date me, did it?