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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by reaperducer on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:23PM (#25027203)
As an aside, just this morning I learned that "baller" is an expression almost a century old. At least.

I was listening to one of my 1950's beatnik poetry albums, and the reader used the adjective "baller" twice, in the same way that we do today.

Related: The word "fly" goes back at least to horse-and-buggy times.

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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by pedalpete on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:05PM (#25029521)
So often the words have interesting origins https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-slang-word-b...
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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by educated_idiot on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:30PM (#25027253)
Haha, I would not be surprised if Beatnik gave birth to the word 'baller'.
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