Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2)

In the OED, Bill Murray is credited with the first recorded proleptic usage of the word “toast”. From the OED:

The lines in quot. 1983 do not in fact appear in the U.S. film Ghostbusters as released in 1985, since a considerable amount of the dialogue is ad-libbed. The actual words spoken by Venkman (played by Bill Murray) as he prepares to fire a laser-type weapon, are, ‘This chick is toast’; this is probably the origin of the proleptic construction which has gained particular currency.

  1. 1983 > Venkman…: “Okay. That’s it! I’m gonna turn this guy into toast.”

D. Aykroyd & H. Ramis, Ghostbusters (film script, third draft) 123