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		<title>By: tk.</title>
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		<description>&quot;No time for the old in-out, love, I&#039;ve just come to read the meter!&quot;</description>
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		<title>By: TootsNYC</title>
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		<description>&quot;Her&quot; is the task at hand.

No matter which context--home improvement, military, whatever.

(I&#039;d never heard of the sexual context, but it is there, I discover just now.)

The Urban Dictionary has &quot;getter&quot;--but that&#039;s weird to me. (it also has, apparently, &quot;get &#039;er done.&quot; )

It&#039;s so definitely a contraction, and the &quot;her&quot; choice of pronoun (instead of &quot;it&quot; and &quot;him&quot; ) I always thought came from the simply fact that it&#039;s easier to pronounce than &quot;get &#039;im&quot;, and there is no contraction for &quot;it&quot; and &quot;get it&quot; is kind of awkward.

Plus, the personification has a nice feel to it.


I&#039;d have wanted to write it &quot;get &#039;er done.&quot;

But here is how Larry The Cable Guy spells it:
Git-R-Done!
http://www.larrythecableguy.com/
and his fan-club site is: http://www.gitrdone.com/ (but hyphens on the site itself--I guess hyphens don&#039;t work well in URLs? Or they decided not to confuse people by putting them in?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Her&#8221; is the task at hand.</p>
<p>No matter which context&#8211;home improvement, military, whatever.</p>
<p>(I&#8217;d never heard of the sexual context, but it is there, I discover just now.)</p>
<p>The Urban Dictionary has &#8220;getter&#8221;&#8211;but that&#8217;s weird to me. (it also has, apparently, &#8220;get &#8216;er done.&#8221; )</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so definitely a contraction, and the &#8220;her&#8221; choice of pronoun (instead of &#8220;it&#8221; and &#8220;him&#8221; ) I always thought came from the simply fact that it&#8217;s easier to pronounce than &#8220;get &#8216;im&#8221;, and there is no contraction for &#8220;it&#8221; and &#8220;get it&#8221; is kind of awkward.</p>
<p>Plus, the personification has a nice feel to it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d have wanted to write it &#8220;get &#8216;er done.&#8221;</p>
<p>But here is how Larry The Cable Guy spells it:<br />
Git-R-Done!<br />
<a href="http://www.larrythecableguy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.larrythecableguy.com/</a><br />
and his fan-club site is: <a href="http://www.gitrdone.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gitrdone.com/</a> (but hyphens on the site itself&#8211;I guess hyphens don&#8217;t work well in URLs? Or they decided not to confuse people by putting them in?)</p>
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