Good Thing

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Good Thing or Good Things may refer to:

In music:

• "Good Thing" (song), a 1989 song by Fine Young Cannibals
• "Good Thing" (Eternal song)
• "Good Things", a song by Rich Boy
• "Good Thing", a song by The Jesus Lizard from the album Head
• "Good Thing", a song by Reel Big Fish from Cheer Up!
• "Good Thing" a song by Rosie Ribbons
• "Good Thing", a song by The Woodentops from Giant
• "Good Thing", a song by Paul Revere and the Raiders
• "The Good Thing", a song by Talking Heads from More Songs About Buildings and Food
• "The Good Things", a song by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies from Susquehanna
• "Good Things", a song by Grand Funk Railroad from Born to Die
• Good Thing, an album by Rebecka Törnqvist

In hacker culture:

• The New Hacker's Dictionary defines Good Thing:

/n.,adj./ — Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews." 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing." 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "YACC is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose Bad Thing.

[edit] See also

• All Good Things (disambiguation)

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