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03 Oct 08
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I have traced references to this to 2004, but it may be older than that. According to the wiki spoof site Encylopedia Dramatica it originated as “Im in ur base killin ur d00ds”. Sources around the web believe that the phrase appeared on a StarCraft screenshot in the Something Awful forums
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Most people connect this with Dundee’s line in Crocodile Dundee (1986): “That’s not a knife; that’s a knife”
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c. 1600, from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “to be or not to be.”
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Hamlet’s original utterance is morose and philosophical, of course. You can’t get much more emo than pondering suicide, considering whether not “to be.” Since X is so semantically flexible, however, modern variants do not recall this feeling of overwhelming responsibility.
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