When & whence "have a good day"?

[sagehen]

> I never had that impression.  I remember noticing its ubiquity but can't
>quite >recall just when that was.  "Have a *nice* day" was the form that
>excited horror >amongst prophets of linguistic doom. '70s ?  Early '80s ?

>My own feeling is that either form is precisely as harmless as the
>hallowed and >archaic "Good day !"  They've never bugged me.

>Now, smiley faces. *They* bug me !

>JL
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>Poster: sagehen
>Subject: When & whence "have a good day"?
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> I can't remember when or where I first heard the now-ubiquitous "have a
>good day" (& minor variations, as "have a good un") following every
>transaction. Perhaps it hasn't supplanted the " y'all come back now" of
>other regions, but it is heard on all sides in the northeast. Did this come
>from tv?
>A. Murie
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Yes, I should have said "nice"....that is still more common here than "good."
It was the chance of "good" 's having been the last one I'd heard  that
made me ask it that way.
AM

A&M Murie
N. Bangor NY
sagehen at westelcom.com