Origin of the phrase "No Way"

[Tondonic]

I think I remember an article in Sports Illustrated in the Fall of either 1964 or 65 before Duke played the mighty UCLA in which the brothers of Sigma Nu began saying “no way” to reflect their chances of winning. I’ve tried everything and come up with nothing. Does anyone know where this phrase came from?

[Peanuthead]

Probably just a shortened version of a common phrase such as “there’s no way that’s going to happen”.

[Senegoid]

One of the less-commonly-used programming languages, VALGOL, includes the California boolean constants FERSURE and NOWAY

@http://www.cvaieee.org/html/humor/computer_languages.html

VALGOL

From its modest beginnings in southern California’s San Fernando Valley, VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y$KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the “CALIFORNIA BOOLEANS” – FERSURE and NOWAY. Repetitions of code are handle in FOR-SURE loops.

(The same text can be found at many other similar sites. Just google for VALGOL or California Booleans.)