Why? Because fuck you, that's why!
February 21, 2012 12:53 AM Subscribe
Where did the expression "Why? Because fuck you, that's why!" come from?
My google-fu has failed me.
My google-fu has failed me.
Google Groups shows an early use in 2004 (though forum date stamps are not 100% reliable) and a few more usages in late 2008/early 2009. Earliest use in print I can find is in a book of poetry from 2005.
The simpler "because fuck you" was used in a Seattle newspaper in 2002 and in a novel published in 1986, which I'm counting as the first usage.
posted by Busy Old Fool at 2:02 AM on February 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
The simpler "because fuck you" was used in a Seattle newspaper in 2002 and in a novel published in 1986, which I'm counting as the first usage.
posted by Busy Old Fool at 2:02 AM on February 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
Maybe related to this exchange from Good Will Hunting (1997)? It's in the third person, though.
Sean: My father was an alcoholic. Mean fuckin' drunk. Used to come home hammered, looking to whale on someone. So I had to provoke him, so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings...
Will: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, "Choose."
Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
Will: I used to go with the wrench.
Sean: Why?
Will: Cause fuck him, that's why.
posted by sparrow89 at 3:29 AM on February 21, 2012 [8 favorites]
Sean: My father was an alcoholic. Mean fuckin' drunk. Used to come home hammered, looking to whale on someone. So I had to provoke him, so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings...
Will: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, "Choose."
Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
Will: I used to go with the wrench.
Sean: Why?
Will: Cause fuck him, that's why.
posted by sparrow89 at 3:29 AM on February 21, 2012 [8 favorites]
Smut Peddlers had a hit back in 1993 called Fuck You.... That's Why. It was pretty popular in the skate / punk circles for a while - - enough that it immediately popped into my head 19 years later.
posted by PSB at 5:22 AM on February 21, 2012
posted by PSB at 5:22 AM on February 21, 2012
Another great Mamet line in this vein: "Where am I from? I'm from the United States of Kiss My Ass!"
posted by El Sabor Asiatico at 7:24 AM on February 21, 2012
posted by El Sabor Asiatico at 7:24 AM on February 21, 2012
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posted by world b free at 1:22 AM on February 21, 2012 [1 favorite]