Re: (Oh / my) sweet summer child
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:33 am
by Memento Mori
I think it likely that sweet summer child's current definition of young and unlearned in the ways of the world is from Game of Thrones for the reasons already explained in this thread. Whenever that phrase was used before it doesn't appear to have had the same meaning.
Re: (Oh / my) sweet summer child
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:51 am
by mcjihge2
Moggy wrote:First mention of it (although day instead of night) on here was 2011:
Subject: The football threadteh bork wrote:Finally
The thing is who will tell us now that foreign teams are gooseberry fool and wouldn't be able to cut it on a wet and windy day in Stoke?
Now they have the chance Sky should sign Jonathan Wilson, just imagine him doing proper tactical analysis on the Last Word and MNF
I mentioned it in Feb 2009,
https://grcade.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56&p=361156&hilit=stoke#p361156This predates Gray by almost 2 years and is only 4 months after stoke returned to the top flight. Im not rulling out other influence from other sources/forumites, but i think we can perhaps take "credit" for this one.