[Ads-l] OK Boomer

[Nancy Friedman]

It seems to have escalated quickly.

https://twitter.com/entry_name/status/1195078287371976704?s=20


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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:25 PM Martin Purdy <
00000bd8cf391c5b-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> First time I heard this expression was in reporting from the New Zealand
> Parliament recently, when the curiously-spelled MP Chlöe Swarbrick used it
> to silence an older heckler:
> The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe
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> Previously I'd only known "boomer" (without the prefixed "baby") as a term
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> Chlöe Swarbrick thought her 'OK, boomer' jibe would kill the meme.
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>     On Thursday, November 14, 2019, 10:42:55 AM GMT+13, Shapiro, Fred <
> fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>  Is anyone able to provide any information about the origins of the phrase
> "OK Boomer"?  My sense is that it is becoming very popular, and people talk
> about it like it's been around for a while, but when I do a LexisNexis
> search the earliest use I seem to find is Oct. 29 of this year.
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> Fred Shapiro
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