# "Let's go down to the quarry and throw stuff in there!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019 "2011-12-22T00:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/1 "2011-12-22T00:15:52Z")
Can someone give me the background on this phrase? I’ve been interpreting it as a newer equivalent of “I like turtles” - something an ADD and not-terribly bright boy would say. Is there some meaning I’m missing? Where does it come from? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/2 "2011-12-22T00:17:55Z")
The first time I ever saw it was right here on the SDMB. [Cite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14568298&postcount=30). I thought it was funny as hell, so now I try and use it whenever appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/3 "2011-12-22T00:19:37Z")
It comes from [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634895), specifically this post: > [@What is the fascination with auto-correct humor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-fascination-with-auto-correct-humor/606194/30): > > I know of a guy that got ahold of his boss’s Blackberry and made it autocorrect “lol” to “Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.” So he’d get texts like “Can you come here? I want to show you this Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.” and eventually, my favorite: > > “Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there. Something’s wrong with my phone Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.” EDIT: Damn you, **Bo**. ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/4 "2011-12-22T00:22:36Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > It comes from [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634895), specifically this post: > > EDIT: Damn you, **Bo**. That’s hilarious. Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/5 "2011-12-22T00:24:35Z")
Didn’t have a quarry nearby when you were growing up, eh? It’s a big hole, what do you do? You throw stuff in there! I’m interested to learn if this phrase has an actual trackable provenance, as I had just assumed (up to reading this thread) that it was a pretty universal thing: Either you were the type of kid to throw stuff in the quarry, the type of kid who would go watch said throwing, or you knew those kids. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/6 "2011-12-22T00:24:35Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I33ktFVLLhs/hqdefault.jpg "The Office- Creed lives by the quarry.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33ktFVLLhs) ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/7 "2011-12-22T00:43:08Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33ktFVLLhs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33ktFVLLhs) Nice find. So it actually came from _The Office_ (although his exact phrasing was “We should hang out by the quarry and throw things down there” - I like the SDMB version better). ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/8 "2011-12-22T17:30:55Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33ktFVLLhs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33ktFVLLhs) This is meme material: [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://imgur.com/OsvHz) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/9 "2011-12-22T19:50:49Z")
🙂 I know my Office episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/10 "2011-12-22T21:14:30Z")
Yep. Y’all got it. _The Office_=\>office shenanigans=\>phone=\>me=\> **Snowboarder** =\>OP. Edit: Despite Creed’s usage of it, on the SDMB, it just means “lol”. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/11 "2011-12-22T21:39:49Z")
I thought it was like that onion-on-a-belt thing. What was that about? ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/12 "2011-12-22T21:43:50Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I thought it was like that onion-on-a-belt thing. What was that about? Well, it \*was \*the style at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/13 "2011-12-22T21:45:30Z")
Heh, true. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/14 "2011-12-23T03:54:55Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I thought it was like that onion-on-a-belt thing. What was that about? I hope this is the right clip (no sound at work). Looks like it judging from the comments. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MLzSeErNFg0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/15 "2011-12-23T04:18:40Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > I hope this is the right clip (no sound at work). Looks like it judging from the comments. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLzSeErNFg0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLzSeErNFg0) I figured Grandpa Simpson was behind it- I either saw it or it just sounds like something he’d say. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/16 "2011-12-23T05:26:36Z")
Sounds pretty typical. “Let’s go down to the {large hole in the ground} and throw stuff in”. I think this concept goes back to the stone age. Basically, it’s what to do when you’re bored, and have nothing better to do. Stuff goes splat or plop or makes big splashes or shatters. It’s cool. Beats sitting around doing nothing. And in a short time you get bored again, and someone says “You guys wanna go see a dead body?” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/17 "2011-12-30T17:58:05Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I think this concept goes back to the stone age. Probably, since that is when quarries started. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/18 "2011-12-30T19:10:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Probably, since that is when quarries started. Indeed; [archaeological evidence](http://iamatvjunkie.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c17f69e20128779b3e82970c-400wi) indicates that a significant number of stone-age men worked in quarries. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/19 "2012-01-01T05:21:12Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Sounds pretty typical. “Let’s go down to the {large hole in the ground} and throw stuff in”. I think this concept goes back to the stone age. Basically, it’s what to do when you’re bored, and have nothing better to do. Stuff goes splat or plop or makes big splashes or shatters. It’s cool. Beats sitting around doing nothing. And in a short time you get bored again, and someone says “You guys wanna go see a dead body?” You hit it right on the nailhead. People actually do that for those very reasons. And it’s done everywhere under various guises. When we were in New Orleans, hungover and still half-drunk, one of the friends drawled, “Wanna get a six-pack and go down to the levee?” Because that’s what they did there. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019/20 "2012-01-01T06:54:43Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > “Wanna get a six-pack and go down to the levee?” I’ve got some whiskey and rye. Let’s take my Chevy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-down-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-in-there/607019.md?page=2)