On Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 4:34:28 PM UTC-5, LGi...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > I kieep hearing the expression "my bad."   
   >    
   > Did this expression orignate on Buify The Vampire Slayer?   
      
   The history of the phase "MY BAD"   
      
   By Skyebeka on August 28th, 2012: The original phrase was "my bag". I'm a   
   child of the 70's. I remember, I was there. I used it, we all used it. It   
   meant "my fault". Yes, it was also used to mean "I'm into to that kind of   
   thing, that is my bag". The    
   movie Clueless got it wrong, thrusting it into the mainstream as "My bad". If   
   you weren't around in the 70's you wouldn't know this.    
      
   By BridgwaterBlitz on November 4th, 2010: The phrase "My bag" was used   
   commonly at least as far back as the 1940's. My father, his family and friends   
   all used it back then in Minnesota. Most of everyone I knew used "my bag" in   
   Kansas in the 70's and 80's.   
    It was always used as shortened slang to mean, "I made a mistake...    
      
   By Anonymous on May 12th, 2009: My wife and I have this argument all the time.   
   YES in the mid 80's to early 90's it was MY BAG as yes my fault or used to   
   denote fault. I am 44 and my wife is 33. She claimed it was never my bag but   
   she is wrong. I am so    
   thankful other people my age remember.    
      
   By Bob on August 16, 2007: The origin of this phrase actually comes from the   
   card game "Spades". The game consists of 2 teams of 2 and each player had to   
   predict how many hands he could take. If they took more hands than they   
   estimated these are counted    
   as sandbags and work against them in the scoring. After the round the player   
   that predicted wrong would often say to his partner my bag meaning my fault or   
   my mistake. Thus, when the young people heard their mothers and fathers using   
   "My bag" at the card    
   table, they took it to the basketball courts.    
      
   History of Spades: Spades is thought to have originated in the Midwestern   
   United States (perhaps Cincinnati, Ohio) in the late 1930s. It was said to   
   have been invented by college students who enjoyed both Whist and Bridge. They   
   were looking for a fast-   
   paced game that was competitive and strategic. The game slowly spread to other   
   college campuses in the midwest, but the game did not really take off until   
   the dramatic events of the Second World War brought so much of America's youth   
   into the military.    
   It would also be played in factory break-rooms and company office lunchrooms   
   all across the country, allowing it to bridge the gap between social classes.    
      
   It is interesting that the game is not even mentioned in many relatively   
   recent books on card games including the Official Rules of Card Games (57th   
   Edition) published by the United States Playing Card Company of Cincinnati,   
   Ohio in 1969. For such a    
   popular card game it has led a somewhat underground existence. It has only   
   been recently that the game has taken on a more official status with clubs and   
   tournaments. Joe Andrews included it in his 2006 Grand Prix World Series of   
   Classic Card Games. For    
   many of the same reasons that the game gained popularity during the 1940s war   
   years, it has exploded on the internet. http://www.rulesofspades   
   com/history.php   
      
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