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Huh. Back in the day it was the postal workers who did the decapitating. That's why we call it "going postal."
Not sure if you’re rearranging fact for effect, but it was a workplace shooting at the Edmond, OK post office by another postal worker that coined the phrase “going postal”. Dude brought a few handguns and killed 15 and wounded I don’t know how many more.
Remember when shootings were so rare that a shooting happening one time at one place was enough to spawn a lasting phrase in American English? Simply fascinating how the times have changed.
Yeah what would you call shootings now if you used the same naming logic? Going high-school? Going k-to-12? Going American?
Also, I vote we call falling into an inescapable pattern of producing half-assed work "going Boeing."
going dark knight
Yeah we had a ton of guns back then too but our culture today is fucked. Division and hate get clicks and our media is selling it.
Bit more than just the one time though.
Ok, sure, however the reference was for the origins of “going postal”, which I recall very well being associated with the Oklahoma shooting. The Wikipedia entry agrees with my memory. Not just post office workplace shootings.
Sure, I just copied it from this Wikipedia entry.
You should listen to the "you're wrong about" podcast on "going postal." It's an interesting dive in that.