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Article #624592Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 06:20
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 06:20
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On 2018-07-02, Radey Shouman <sho...@comcast.net> wrote: > Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> writes: > >> On 2 Jul 2018 17:59:02 GMT >> ma...@mail.com wrote: >> >>> The Gordon bennett one is on a circuit inside Co. Kildare, was on a while >> >> Woah there! From early childhood onwards I recall my father using >> "Gordon Bennet" as a stand in for swearing without ever knowing who or what >> it referred to from time to time over the decades I have asked people >> (usually after hearing them use it as he did) without ever learning >> anything. I even tried googling it once or twice, fruitlessly. >> >> For me this is a half century old minor mystery, thank you muchly >> for mentioning it. >> >> So it was an early motor race run in Ireland, presumably named after >> an early racer or race organiser ? Do you know more ? > > I'm not at all sure about the motor race, but believe that "Gordon > Bennett" as an expletive was inspired by this character: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gordon_Bennett_Jr. > > a second generation newspaperman, famous partly for sending Stanley to > find Livingstone, and for some poor impulse control on social occasions. Thanks for the history lessons. I remember hearing "Gordon Bennett" used as a mild oath on the TV series _Red Dwarf_, and always wondered what it meant. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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