# Was "Git-R-Done" Pre-Larry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587 "2006-01-19T01:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickles)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/1 "2006-01-19T01:42:51Z")
Did the phrase “Gir-R-Done” exist before Larry the Cable Guy? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/2 "2006-01-19T01:51:51Z")
Yes. I heard it many times in my youth from Southern working class types. The approximate meaning was, “This unpleasant job isn’t going to do itself. Let’s get it done and over with.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/3 "2006-01-19T01:55:25Z")
Oh and the full phrasing was usually: “All right, let’s get her done.” (Usually as an admonition to a loafer or a group of same.) Now as to why an unpleasant task is a “she,” I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![Nickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickles)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/4 "2006-01-19T01:58:58Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Yes. I heard it many times in my youth from Southern working class types. The approximate meaning was, “This unpleasant job isn’t going to do itself. Let’s get it done and over with.” Ah, thank you, I’ve just won a bet! Does it bother you to hear people using it haphazardly all the time, or does it just seem like any other over-used meme? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/5 "2006-01-19T02:28:44Z")
> [@Nickles](#): > > Does it bother you to hear people using it haphazardly all the time, or does it just seem like any other over-used meme? No more annoying than any other catch phrase, I reckon. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/6 "2006-01-19T03:33:32Z")
> [@Nickles](#): > > Ah, thank you, I’ve just won a bet! > > Does it bother you to hear people using it haphazardly all the time, or does it just seem like any other over-used meme? Would it by any change be for one of the new Jefferson coins? Anyway, by it’s very definition, a meme can’t be overused. ---
**Author:** ![Nickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickles)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/7 "2006-01-19T06:51:57Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Would it by any change be for one of the new Jefferson coins? > > Anyway, by it’s very definition, a meme can’t be overused. You mean the new nickels? Or did they release others, too? I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/8 "2006-01-20T05:17:44Z")
> [@Nickles](#): > > You mean the new nickels? Or did they release others, too? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-git-r-done-pre-larry/340587/9 "2006-01-20T05:31:23Z")
I nominate this thread title as the weirdest of the day.