so, that happened

[Steve Kl.]

I've heard it -- with building intensity in the past couple of months. I
think it's sort of becoming catch-phrasey.

The first time I can pinpoint it was about 10 months ago, although in that
instance, it didn't seem brand new to me.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> I don't recall ever hearing this phrase.
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> --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Ann Burlingham <ann at BURLINGHAMBOOKS.COM> wrote:
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> > From: Ann Burlingham <ann at BURLINGHAMBOOKS.COM>
> > Subject: so, that happened
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 9:30 AM
> > i was recently reading amy
> > dickinson's _the mighty queens of freeville_,
> > in which she quotes her daughter as saying, after a
> > disaster (the high
> > school madrigal group crashed through the stage floor),
> > "Well, *that*
> > happened". (p. 170) the phrase is familiar to me - more
> > perhaps as "so, that
> > happened", and i came across it again somewhere else in the
> > last few days,
> > too, and both times wondered when and where this sprang
> > from. I'm
> > familiar with it - not sure if i've used it - but i
> > couldn't say where
> > it's from. in googling, i found a comment here
> > http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/narrative-phrases
> > from
> > shadoeknight (about halfway down) that the usage was used
> > in "state &
> > main" by alec baldwin's character. i'm guessing it didn't
> > originate
> > there, but, unless i'm suffering from recency bias, it
> > feels like a
> > newer phrase to me. is this a phrase you use? do you hear
> > it or see it, too?
> >
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