Re: "Owned"

[Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat Durkin wrote:
> "Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:1167542145.414575.290000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > "owned" seems to be very recent slang for "was defeated by."  Like,
> > "the nazis got owned by the Russians."  Where did this idiom come 
> > from?
>
> I hven't heard it, but there is that expression, made familiar most 
> recently by Colin Powell--You break it you own it (or buy it).

That's been appearing in stores at least since I was a kid: "You broke 
it, you bought it."

I saw a bumper sticker the other day, depicting President Bush saying, 
"Iraq: I broke it, you bought it."