"You got served"?

[cmdr_zoom]

Can someone much more cool and hip than I explain the origins of this phrase? Did it originally refer to tennis, subpoenas, what?

Comments

[karjack.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure it has something to do with the legal papers variety of serving. Don't ask me why. I'm not cool, I just play cool on TV.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's a reference to the classic BBC situation comedy Are You Being Served? (1972-1985)

... but I doubt it.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the only thing I can think of is Zangeif's line in the horrid and not cool Street Fighter movie:

DJ: Because he paid me a freakin' fortune, that's why!
Zangeif: You got... paid?

It's damn sad...

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

when I'm the one who knows...

Subpoenas is the root, but it has come to mean that you're owned, or Pnwed in this day and age.

Re: It's damn sad...

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

That's what I figured. So in today's "hip-hop" culture, the center of the pantheon of woes is the threat of having a lawsuit filed against you? Yeah, that's real street, yo.