Sort of. My reading is that they’re claiming the joke probably already existed, but it was made popular by a 1989 American film. But the key is that it existed before that. Presumably it was in America by 1988, but that says nothing of where it originated.
Sort of. My reading is that they’re claiming the joke probably already existed, but it was made popular by a 1989 American film. But the key is that it existed before that. Presumably it was in America by 1988, but that says nothing of where it originated.