"to-done list": candidate for least-likely-to-succeed category?

[Laurence Horn]

 From a constantly aired pre-Father's Day commercial for Ace Hardware:

"Turn your to-do list into a to-done list"

Not, however, novel; there are 125 actual g-hits (a.k.a. "about
90,000") for "to-done list", most of them relevant and most of the
relevant ones predating this ad campaign.  Almost all seem to involve
local syntagmatic priming (i.e. an immediately preceding occurrence
of "to-do list").

LH

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