Re: "Owned"

[Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HVS wrote:
> On 31 Dec 2006, Harlan Messinger wrote
>
> > 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."
>
> Or the twee version -- "Lovely to look at/Lovely to hold/But if you 
> break it/Consider it sold" -- which, I'm happy to say, I've not seen 
> for a some years now.
Oh, yeah, that was the version I saw originally. Much less abrupt. You 
prefer the abrupt version. :-)