OK, might as well get this over with.....
Why is Captain Kirk like a roll of toilet paper?
They both circle Uranus looking for Klingons.
As far as the original thread question, it may very well be the first use of the term. HG Wells seemed to have a knack for foretelling future events thru his fiction. The story is, when asked what he wanted as an epitath on his tombstone, he retorted "Damn you, I told you so!"
