[Ads-l] pooched

[Ben Zimmer]

Common in computing circles since at least 1990, when it shows up on
Usenet...

comp.sys.amiga.hardware, Mar. 19, 1990
If I boot from Dynamic Studio with their sys-config it's fine, otherwise
it's pooched.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.amiga.hardware/45Z-e6MGnds/2vvUFHofBm4J

Further discussion of the computing usage in this newsletter from 2002:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020605174936/http://www.langa.com:80/newsletters/2002/2002-03-18.htm#10
https://web.archive.org/web/20020608045701/http://www.langa.com:80/newsletters/2002/2002-03-21.htm#10


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:33 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> GB has "You're pooched" from 2001.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:31 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Screwed."
> >
> > Nicolle Wallace on _Deadline: White House_ yesterday:
> >
> > "The second member of the Dowd-Cobb team [is] basically acknowledging
> > that, on obstruction, the President's pooched."
> >
> > < screw the pooch (popularized by _The Right Stuff_) < fuck the dog
> >
> >

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