Thursday, October 16, 2014

Dr. Pablito Wants to Get to the Bottom of the Snowflake Thing. The Big Thirsty.

So the lovely spouse is training to be a research hamsterian, and as a class assignment, she decided to investigate the earliest usage of "snowflake" in its snarky sense, the way it is used here.

From Fight Club, 1999.

Tyler Durden: "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."

Q: Can anyone push it back further than that? When did it first appear in these pages?

2 comments:

  1. Compound CalicoOctober 16, 2014 at 11:56 AM

    The first use of snowflake on the heavily edited final archive of RYS appears to be this post. But remember, the original set of 4000+ posts was cut to about 1000 at the end of that blog's life. (Yes, I am sorry about that.)

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    1. College MiseryOctober 16, 2014 at 12:01 PM

      Yes, but snowflake was used on RYS from the beginning. Why did you cut so much stuff?

      Anyway, the second post ever here, a Stanley Fish link from Meanest Professor Ever used "snowflake" in June of 2010 . I'll put a tab up later today with all posts labeled "snowflake or snowflakes." There are many of course, but you know how people never label their fucking posts!!!!

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