My work here is done Lone Ranger

I know I’ve heard the quote many times, but just cannot place which movie it came from..

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Is work a verb?
What is the meaning of I am done?
What is a shop in which some kind of work is done?
Who said hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard?
What is definition of organize?
Nick Bridge
Steve Bartman
Andy Sawyer
Dave E Amiott
Hunter Rose
Hunter Rose
Nick Bridge

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It was spoken in Blazing Saddles, yes, but the earliest the line was spoken and made popular was from the original „Lone Ranger“ series.
At the end of every episode, the Lone Ranger would say „my work here is done now“ and then he’d slip off and we’d hear the iconic „Hi-ho Silver away!“ line as people are left asking who that masked man was.
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'My work here is done' is a quote from which movie?
I know I've heard the quote many times, but just cannot place which movie it came from..
My daughter ( who, by the way, is one who answered this question, too) and I will quote lines from Super Troopers, Billy Madison, Uncle Buck, Office Space, Dumb and Dumber and a whole host of movies. Sometimes we say them randomly or when it applies to something said or being done at that moment.
Mary Poppins and the Lone Ranger
Mel brooks in the movie „Blazing saddle“

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Is work a verb?

"Work" can be a noun or a verb. If it describes a thing, "My work here is done" then it's a noun. If it describes an action, "I cannot work tomorrow" then it's a verb.

What is the meaning of I am done?

The phrase "I am done" can have a literal meaning, i.e. I have finished.The slang usage means that you are tired (e.g. from work). I am exhausted.The poetical usage is experiencing a downfall (or undone). "I am done," said the King.

What is a shop in which some kind of work is done?

Workshop is the most obvious. Other words vary in what work is done. For instance, automotive work is done in a garage, scientific work is performed in a laboratory, and various types of material or metalwork is done in a machine shop.

Who said hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard?

Kevin Durant said this.

What is definition of organize?

Organizing means seeing that work gets done. What is the work? For plants, the work includes important activities such as breathing, feeding, growing, interacting with the environment, responding to stresses and stressors, reproducing, and shutting down. How is the work done? It's done by setting priorities, and assigning tasks. Why is the work done? It's done for survival, which is the point and the advantage of organizing.

Nick Bridge

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Oct 28, 2002, 2:52:38 PM10/28/02

I saw an episode of TWW recently where Sam says "My work here is done". Josh
has also used this phrase in the past.

Does anyone know where this saying came from originally? - I have searched
high and low to find out and so far have found nothing.

Cheers

GBlueOwl

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Oct 28, 2002, 3:00:40 PM10/28/02

In article <apk4i4$540$>, "Nick Bridge"
<> writes:

I think it's just a sort of cliched saying for comic book Superheros. It's the
kind of thing someone like The Lone Ranger or Batman would say on the last
page, when the adventure is over and they're about to mysteriously slip away.

Brian

Steve Bartman

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Oct 28, 2002, 3:13:06 PM10/28/02

I don't think he was the first to say it, but as I recall this was the
complete text of the suicide note penned by C.W. Post, the inventor of
Grape Nuts and founder of General Foods Corp.

Steve
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Andy Sawyer

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Oct 28, 2002, 4:02:32 PM10/28/02

In article <apk4i4$540$>,
on Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:52:38 +0000 (UTC),
"Nick Bridge" <> wrote:

I find it's a fairly commonly used expressionน. I'd guess it probably
originates from something like The Lone Ranger (and I think the
original form was "OUR work here is done" - but I may be wrong)

Footnotes:
น I use it pretty much everytime I finish a consulting job, when I
invite everyone out for a drink :-)
--
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter
how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first,
and is waiting for it." -- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

teepee

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Oct 28, 2002, 6:35:38 PM10/28/02

"Nick Bridge" <> wrote

It's generally attributed to the Lone Ranger, as in "Come Tonto, our
work here is done," though no-one seems to know if or when he actually
said it. As no-one can be arsed to go through all the old episodes on TV
and Radio and in the comics to source it, it might be one of those
things never actually said by the person famous for saying it, like
"Come up and see me some time" or beam me up Scotty."

Dave E Amiott

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Oct 29, 2002, 2:57:56 PM10/29/02

"Nick Bridge" <> wrote in message
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On historical level, it was used in the suicide note of inventor George
Eastman (of Eastman/Kodak). The full text was:
"To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?"
I don't know if this was the first time it was used in any way that would
have popularized it or not. I seem to recall reading in a Vonnegut novel
where someone had plagiarized it, but I can't remember if he claimed that
Eastman plagiarized from someone else, or if one of the characters in the
book copied it from Eastman.
Since then, it's become a rather commonly used phrase, often used ironically
to lend weight to an otherwise useless or insignificant accomplishment. My
favorite instance of it used was on the Monorail episode of "The Simpsons",
when, after disaster has been narrowly averted, Leonard Nimoy says "My work
here is done." Barney asks incredulously "What do you mean? You didn't do
anything." to which Leonard replies "Didn't i?" and beams away.
DAVE

gemron

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Oct 29, 2002, 4:41:20 PM10/29/02

I believe according to the bible, Christ said this to his apostles on the
eve of the ascention. I could be wrong, its been a long time since school.

"Nick Bridge" <> wrote in message
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Danachi

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Oct 29, 2002, 5:09:19 PM10/29/02

Dave E Amiott wrote (snippage):

> On historical level, it was used in the suicide note of inventor George
> Eastman (of Eastman/Kodak). The full text was:
> "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?"
> I don't know if this was the first time it was used in any way that would
> have popularized it or not.

My sledge and anvil lie declined
My bellows too have lost their wind
My fire's extinct, my forge decayed,
And in the Dust my Vice is laid
My coals are spent, my iron's gone
My Nails are Drove, My Work is done.

Epitaph in Nettlebed churchyard on William Strange, d. 6 June 1746, and
used similarly for other blacksmiths.

...According to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Danachi

Hunter Rose

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Oct 29, 2002, 6:01:18 PM10/29/02

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:35:38 -0000, "teepee"
<> wrote:

>... it might be one of those things never actually said by the person

>famous for saying it, like "Come up and see me some time" or beam me
>up Scotty."

"Play it again, Sam."

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

teepee

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Oct 30, 2002, 3:33:17 AM10/30/02

"Hunter Rose" <> wrote

> "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Nah, Basil Rathbone said that all the time in the original screenplays
;-) I saw it the other day on TCM

meirman

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Oct 30, 2002, 5:07:25 AM10/30/02

In alt.tv.the-west-wing on Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:35:38 -0000 "teepee"
<> posted:

She did say "Come up some time and see me." Saw it with my own eyes.

Meirman

If emailing, please let me know whether
or not you are posting the same letter.

Change domain to erols.com, if necessary.

teepee

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Oct 30, 2002, 7:09:07 AM10/30/02

"meirman" <> wrote

> >things never actually said by the person famous for saying it, like
> >"Come up and see me some time" or beam me up Scotty."
>
> She did say "Come up some time and see me." Saw it with my own eyes.

Lipreader? Who can say.
She didn't say "Come up and see me some time" though.

Hunter Rose

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Oct 30, 2002, 6:51:22 AM10/30/02

That's the point. Rathbone said it in the movies, but Holmes
never said it in the books.

teepee

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Oct 30, 2002, 1:22:33 PM10/30/02

"Hunter Rose" <> wrote

> >Nah, Basil Rathbone said that all the time in the original
screenplays
> >;-) I saw it the other day on TCM
>
> That's the point. Rathbone said it in the movies, but Holmes
> never said it in the books.

Books? What are they?

Nick Bridge

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Oct 30, 2002, 1:27:13 PM10/30/02

>
> Epitaph in Nettlebed churchyard on William Strange, d. 6 June 1746, and
> used similarly for other blacksmiths.
>
> ...According to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
>
>
> Danachi

It appears that my work here is done.........................I never thought
the answer would be this Strange (!)

GBlueOwl

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Oct 30, 2002, 2:22:56 PM10/30/02

In article <2_Pv9.1867$>, "teepee"
<> writes:

I've heard conflicting accounts of the veracity of that quote as well. What I
suspect it might be is, Ms. West lived a long time, and was doing her "hussy"
shtick **way** longer than she really should have been. (Have you ever seen
"Sextette", featuring a late-70's Mae West (that's "the late 1970's", not her
age; West was actually 85 at the time) mixing it up with among others Keith
Moon & Alice Cooper? It's not a pretty picture.) Anyway, there is a clip from
her early days you see a lot where she says "Why Don't you come up and see
me?", perhaps originally that got corrupted into the "Come Up And See Me
Sometime" false quote, until eventually it became such a catch phrase
associated with her that she started using it, simply because everyone was
expecting her to say it.

Brian

Maggie

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Nov 2, 2002, 2:44:57 PM11/2/02

"GBlueOwl" wrote ...
> "teepee" writes:

> >"meirman" wrote

> >> >things never actually said by the
> >> > person famous for saying it, like
> >> >"Come up and see me some time"
> >> > or beam me up Scotty."

> >> She did say "Come up some time and
> >> see me." Saw it with my own eyes.

snips

> I've heard conflicting accounts of the
> veracity of that quote as well. What I
> suspect it might be is, Ms. West lived a
> long time, and was doing her "hussy"
> shtick **way** longer than she really
> should have been. (Have you ever seen
> "Sextette", featuring a late-70's Mae
> West (that's "the late 1970's", not her
> age; West was actually 85 at the time)
> mixing it up with among others Keith
> Moon & Alice Cooper? It's not a pretty
> picture.) Anyway, there is a clip from
> her early days you see a lot where she
> says "Why Don't you come up and see
> me?", perhaps originally that got corrupted
> into the "Come Up And See Me
> Sometime" false quote, until eventually
> it became such a catch phrase
> associated with her that she started
> using it, simply because everyone was
> expecting her to say it.

The movie was "She done him wrong." Sometimes famous quotations
are apochryphal, but sometimes the famous line is similar to
something actually said. In this case, Mae West said something
very similar:
http://www.carygrant.net/wavs/wrong.html. I kind of like it that
Cary Grant's character turned her down.

Maggie

meirman

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Nov 3, 2002, 3:31:08 AM11/3/02

In alt.tv.the-west-wing on Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:09:07 -0000 "teepee"
<> posted:

>
>"meirman" <> wrote
>
>> >things never actually said by the person famous for saying it, like
>> >"Come up and see me some time" or beam me up Scotty."
>>
>> She did say "Come up some time and see me." Saw it with my own eyes.
>
>Lipreader? Who can say.

To a certain extent. I heard the words and saw her lips move in
coordination with them.

>She didn't say "Come up and see me some time" though.

I agree. That was my point. She might have said it outside a movie,
but I'm guessing she would tend to continue to say what was in the
script.

It's a little more alliterative the way it is commonly said, and I'll
bet that's why that stuck.