Good Thing

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Good Thing is also a single by British band  Fine Young Cannibals from the album The Raw and the Cooked

A Good Thing, usually written with capital letters and sometimes with a "^TM" (and emphasised when spoken), is a humorous phrase for anything that is seen as good or desirable. The phrase is particularly used when the writer wishes to emphasize information supposedly unknown to the reader, such as when making a recommendation. For example, homemaking advisor Martha Stewart recommends tools and techniques with the phrase, "It's a Good Thing."

It originated in the humorous parody of British history text books, 1066 and All That (1930) by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman. The terms Bad Thing, Right Thing and Wrong Thing are thought to have a similar derivation.