I am trying to track down an expression and its original source I saw some time ago. It is some variation of:
Get Yours and Get Out
Get Mine Before it all comes down
but I simply cannot locate now.
There was an acronym — GMAGO? that went with it.
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Any one have any suggestions as to what this was? I need both the phrase, the acronym, and the source.
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Perhaps you’re looking for IBGYBG “I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone”?
You may have a half-remembered acronym you’re trying to recall, but the best expression of what you mean is by far Radiohead’s “Idioteque.”
We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
It’s the artistic rendering of Bailout Nation that rings truest to me.
Get while the getting’s good.
In the same category from a favorite restaurant in Louisiana:
Eat It & Beat It
They also served crawdads and thus had the ubiquitous slogan:
Suck the Heads and Pinch the Tails
Possibilities:
IGM
or the more explicit:
FUIGM
FUJIGM
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Take the money and run
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Not to sell Radiohead short, but that’s been around a while:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_Money_and_Run
It’s a Steve Miller song too.
There was the old saying:
Get out while the getting’s good. It’s sometimes reduced to get while the getting’s good.
I think it dates back at least to the Depression, if not before.
But I think you’re trying to remember something of more recent provenance.
IGM
FUIGM
FUJIGM
Barry, not sure where you’re going with this but two current relevant quotations would be:
“Pull up the rope, I’m on board”
and the ever popular- BOHICA!—-Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
Are you thinking Get Mine And Get Out?
Woody Allen’s 2001 Curse of the Jade Scorpion
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256524/
Not certain if that’s what you’re looking for though.
Not certain the movie was so widely known that the line became an acronym.
Crushed when he caught his wife cheating. He’s feeling older and looks around and says,
” Hey, maybe it’s time I get mine and get out. ”
Guy named Peterson a couple of years ago tried the same. Of course, he’s a houseguest at Sing Sing these days
i think that was in ‘crisis economics’ by roubini.
I think we may have a winner!
I traced its earliest usage to a book by Jonathan A. Knee “Accidental Investment Banker” as increasingly mercenary bankers signed off on weak deals
Urban Dictionary has the following:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IBGYBG
Acronym for “I’ll Be Gone, You’ll Be Gone.”
It’s what douchebag hedge fund managers say to each other when they create an investment mechanism that makes both of them rich while fucking the American public.
Why should they care? They’ll both be gone (rich and retired) by the time the whole thing falls apart.
“It’s what douchebag hedge fund managers say to each other when they create an investment mechanism that makes both of them rich while fucking the American public.” [lol]
You can get your IBGYBG coffee cups and T-shirts here
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/ibgybg_1/
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