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On 2018-07-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> 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 ?
>

A lot more, fascinating man. I think it was his father that caused the 
Spanish-American war to sell more newspapers.

There was the story of the younger man having an arranged marriage, 
he visited a bar on the way to see his intended, then arrived,
the family was unready for him, left him in the front room for a 
while the girl was having a spray job, so when she arrived in the
front room, Gordon was relieving a need into the fireplace. He left
the US in shame and never returned.

The race was one of the first in the UK, the redflag order was in 
effect in GreatBritain but not in Ireland.

Oh, the newspaper group had a correspondent in the UK reporting 
on European affairs called Karl Marx

All the above is from personal accounts of the race and the man.
May bo be true, but what the hell.


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