Back in my younger days of television watching, this was Richard Hatch on Battlestar Galactica.

But now this is who they mean by Richard Hatch.

And this is what they mean by Battlestar Galactica.

I’m sure there’s something clever and French I could cite here (la plus ca change, etc.). Isn’t cultural reverse engineering a lonely game?

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[...] Meanwhile, I only knew get ‘er done as the catch-phrase of Larry the Cable Guy, but I am noticing it now in stories about construction, like the above photo from the building of this new mall, or the re-opening of our local Devil’s Slide road. I guess it’s another example of cultural reverse engineering; presumably the working-class salt-of-the-earth lingo of construction works was where Larry picked up that particular phrase. [...]

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