When did this ludicrous piece of street-talk enter the mainstream?
And, come to that, why?!?!
I'm genuinely sorry to feel so fascist about it, but I'm pig sick of reading those two words on this site. Sometimes it's like reading The Sun. Allegedly.
I'm even confused about the intended meaning. For example, I presume that it's valid to write "Beginning of." as a rather overt but effective counter measure, because surely they cancel each other out, and the discussion can thereby continue.
Or is the declaration of "End" equivalent to saying "Pax", or "I call ....", when the first person to say <whichever thing it is> acquires divine and irrefutable rights to <thing>?
It seems to derive from the same mindset that gave us the now near-obsolete "Talk to the hand...", or "Am I bovvered". If I'm right about that then "End of." is clearly destined for the etymological scrap heap, so maybe I should be no more worried about it that the threat of loon pants becoming compulsory again.
Fetch my Horlicks, dear.
