# Snappy responses to "OK boomer" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651 "2019-11-19T15:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kovitlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/81 "2019-11-27T20:59:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Do we need a snappy response? Has anyone actually heard that phrase in real life? Why can you only reply in real life? ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/82 "2019-11-27T21:17:55Z")
> [@Kovitlac](#): > > Why can you only reply in real life? I, for one, spend _hours_ of time thinking up rebuttals to things that I’m imagining people will someday say to me And all my rebuttals are always sick burns that land perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/83 "2019-11-27T21:22:19Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I, for one, spend _hours_ of time thinking up rebuttals to things that I’m imagining people will someday say to me > > And all my rebuttals are always sick burns that land perfectly. He was prepared! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/84 "2019-11-27T21:28:25Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Internet meme: > > Luddite: “You Industrial Agers are ruining society!” > > Young person: “OK Loomer” Now that’s funny! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/85 "2019-11-27T22:54:53Z")
I’ve never heard that phrase before. OK is the standard mail abbreviation for Oklahoma. And when you think boom in relation to Oklahoma you think of three different things: 1. The Oklahoma land rush: > [@](#): > > “Boomers” is the name given to settlers in the Southern United States who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma in 1879, prior to President Grover Cleveland opening them to settlement by signing the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889.[1] The Sooners, settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands just prior to the April 22, 1889 official opening, were preceded by Boomers by a decade. tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomers\_(Oklahoma\_settlers) 1. The oil boom there. [Oklahoma Petroleum History - American Oil & Gas Historical Society](https://aoghs.org/oil-almanac/oklahoma-oil-history/) But I expect the most common is the third: There is a university there and it has a football team > [@](#): > > “Boomer Sooner” is the fight song for the University of Oklahoma (OU). The lyrics were written in 1905 by Arthur M. Alden, an OU student and son of a local jeweler in Norman. > **[Boomer Sooner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer_Sooner)** > > "Boomer Sooner" is the fight song for the University of Oklahoma (OU). The lyrics were written in 1905 by Arthur M. Alden, an OU student and son of a local jeweler in Norman. The tune is taken from "Boola Boola", the fight song of Yale University (which was itself borrowed from an 1898 song called "La Hoola Boola" by Robert Allen (Bob) Cole and Billy Johnson). A year later, an additional section was appended, borrowed from the University of North Carolina's "I'm a Tar Heel Born". > The phrase "Boo... ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/86 "2019-11-28T04:21:34Z")
Suicide boomers - when did they start? Isn’t everyone wearing an explosive vest a would-be suicide boomer? ---
**Author:** ![icantdraw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3ec8ea/32.png) [@icantdraw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icantdraw)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/87 "2019-12-04T16:33:23Z")
“Whatever, Tide-Pod” ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/88 "2019-12-04T18:10:26Z")
you all are missing the opportunity. Boomers just need to embrace the usage as their own and start pre-emptively remarking to Millennials. “Ok, Boomer!” Nothing makes something become unattractive like adoption by the older targeted generation. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/89 "2019-12-04T19:25:40Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > Suicide boomers - when did they start? Isn’t everyone wearing an explosive vest a would-be suicide boomer? My mind is trying to turn this into a cartoon. Bad mind. Would a boomer wear a vest? Explosive bell-bottoms, maybe. Although that’s dated. What would a suicide boomer wear? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/90 "2019-12-04T20:32:35Z")
I was okay, Boomered the other day. I responded, “Dude, I’m Gen-x. My only hero who didn’t OD on heroin or kill himself was Mr Rogers. We’re nihilistic as hell, and we’ll destroy the world just to make a point.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/91 "2019-12-04T20:41:46Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > …Nothing makes something become unattractive like adoption by the older targeted generation. Word up. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/92 "2019-12-04T20:44:42Z")
> [@icantdraw](#): > > “Whatever, Tide-Pod” I’m stealing this. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/93 "2019-12-04T20:51:02Z")
So, I guess “I gotcha boomer right here, punk” is a no-go? FWIW, I’m Gen-X (though I identify as a Baby Buster). ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/94 "2019-12-04T20:56:02Z")
OK Boomer Harlem Shake ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/95 "2019-12-04T21:00:05Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I was okay, Boomered the other day. I responded, “Dude, I’m Gen-x. My only hero who didn’t OD on heroin or kill himself was Mr Rogers. We’re nihilistic as hell, and we’ll destroy the world just to make a point.” I should point out my son and I were messing around with each other. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/96 "2019-12-05T20:26:32Z")
I’m a zoomer not a boomer, you my young friend are Gen Z, consider this your daily affirmation in lieu of a trophy. get moving! or Talk to the hand. I find it funny. I can handle their angst and disgust or amusement directed my generation. I felt the same way at their age. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/97 "2019-12-17T05:44:15Z")
I recently Boomered a fellow Boomer who didn’t know what Bluetooth is. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/98 "2019-12-17T10:33:47Z")
My children informed me today that my move in this game is “OK Zoomer” (There are no actual boomers in this house, but whatevs) ---
**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/99 "2019-12-17T10:50:07Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > It could be intentionally misinterpreting that “boomer” implies that they served on a nuclear sub, and the response would then inquire as to where the other person served. > [@naita](#): > > Unless you were trying to imply their mom is a Ballistic Missile Submarine, in which case I have to ask “WTF is wrong with you?!” “OK Boomer” _launch a ballistic missile at them_ Pretty snappy ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/100 "2019-12-17T16:52:24Z")
OK Skippy? But my real response would probably be “I’m gen-x, moron.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651.md?page=6)