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I've been hearing this constantly since getting to brooklyn.
In case I had any illusions that it was new york based, it was on the simpsons recently.
Where is it from? I know I've been out of pop culture for awhile, but its really bugging me!
It seems so random....
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(thats it) YOUVE GOT IT!!!!
i dont have it, or any idea where 'it' comes from, but i do know i'm in sydney
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It used to be an old Burger King catchphrase: "You want it... you got it!" and sung in that annoyiong way advertising sayings are!
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Location: York, England
Ah-kha!
Interesting. You make it sound old, and I sure wasn't hearing it in cali a couple years ago. Maybe cali has rejected it?
But thats 80% of the mystery solved anyway!
thank you muchly. (and good to see you're still around at times.) Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
what goes around comes around. unless you're into stalls.
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Location: Bali, Australia
What's it mean? what's the context in which this catchphrase is used?
Something more than *Oh yes, old chap, it seems you've caught on to the drift of the conversation now...*
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
OK, if I understand this thread at all...
Meaning - Yes
Context:
"Can I have a barrel of monkeys?"
"You got it! (Yes)"
Is that right, or have I totally misunderstood this whole thing?
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I use it all the time. And I'm from Michigan.
Of course, I do hear it around here a lot more.
But it's not "You've got it!" It's "You gottit!"
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
big and good and broken
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Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
i think its quite an old turn of phrase kyri - over 20 years at least, as brian adam's 1981 album shows...
maybe its just cos you've been away quite recently that you noticed it?
its a very american expression to my ears
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cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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*wonders why and how Cole has such an extensive knowledge of Brian Adams*
I'm going to have Roy Orbison's 'You Got It' playing in my head all evening now.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
lurker
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Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Written by: Kyrian
I've been hearing this constantly since getting to brooklyn.
In case I had any illusions that it was new york based, it was on the simpsons recently.
Where is it from? I know I've been out of pop culture for awhile, but its really bugging me!
It seems so random....
i think it's the [censored] son of "fuggetaboudit". i usually use "no problem" tho.
-- dut
I make my own people.
607 posts
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Word.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ah, Patriarch, you're just a southern cracker...what would you know?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
master of disaster
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Location: New York, USA
kyrian, you've definitely got it
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
big and good and broken
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Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
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Ah, Patriarch, you're just a southern cracker...what would you know?
and obviously you're as ghetto pimp as they come doc - ain't nuthin spat but ebonics down in the bloomfield hills projects...
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
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Location: in the trees
ooooooooooooo wow i have a township named after me
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Location: York, England
I re-a-ly keep forgetting you're from there doc... *shakes head*
Nah, I've really only just noticed it. It is indeed "you", not "you've" but got it is definetly two words with a good seperation between them.
It does sound very american. Hence my first thought it was a new yorkish thing. But Mike's busy proving me wrong. Is it just !californian? (not californian). Altho I'm not from cali, either, but maybe its also an age thing? Maybe its all a fluke? Its obviously not terribly new, I just have no idea why i've never heard it so much before. Maybe i'm only noticing it now because I hear it constantly? (And say it... it works. )
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
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