"my bad" revisited one more time

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:00:43AM -0400, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> Great article! You may wish to add the following slightly earlier
> citation from a sports writer. I sent it to the OED via email and was
> told that the antedating would be added to the revision file. So it
> will probably appear in time.
>
> 1985 November 14, Gainesville Sun, Welcome to the wonderful, wacky
> world of SEC football by Bobby Tyler, Page 3E, Gainesville, Florida.
> (Google News Archive)
>
> Yes, the Vols still must host Vandy the following weekend, but c'mon,
> Vandy? Oops, my bad, I forgot for a moment what the Commodore did to
> Georgia. Silly me.

(For what it's worth, we did add this to the entry as soon as
it came in; I think it'll go up at the next refresh, in
September.)

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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