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More recently, we’ve seen the variations on “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” apparently destined for the Catchphrase Hall of Fame, as my friend Jaime Daneh[e]y pointed out to me. She found a scholarly blog that noted more than 100,000 variations on it. Why that phrase? Because it’s a variation on “My bad,” isn’t it? The demand for clever-sounding ways of excusing bad behavior is as infinite as our capacity for bad behavior.
