# Origin of quote, "I said GOOD DAY, sir!"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 19, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876 "2005-06-19T03:23:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876/61 "2013-11-08T05:34:09Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> …ETA: It is sometimes frustrating to me that I remember trivial things like this from the 20th century–the last millennium!–when my memory is so poor about what I did yesterday, or five minutes ago, or what I was saying 30 seconds ago…

Who did you say you were, again?

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876/62 "2013-11-09T11:53:20Z")

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LOL

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876/63 "2014-06-19T04:59:12Z")

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> [@Gfactor](#):
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> …[There was a] similar quote by Janeane Garofalo in Mystery Men…

Yes - here it is:

_The Shoveller:_ Watch it, Spleen, you’re going to kill someone with that thing!  
_Dr. Heller:_ Oh, no, no, no. All these weapons are completely non-lethal.  
_The Bowler:_ Wow. How wonderfully eccentric while simultaneously being a complete waste of our time. Good day, sir. I say good day.

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876/64 "2014-06-19T05:23:25Z")

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Also from 1999. My Dr. Katz still looks earliest!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-quote-i-said-good-day-sir/308876/65 "2018-11-20T01:26:31Z")

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Bumped.

In _Hello, Dolly!_, which I just saw, grumpy rich guy Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) twice tries to brush off a young man who wants to marry his niece by saying firmly, “Thank you for the honor of your visit.”

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