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Re: Computers, anyone?

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:55
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> I have always assumed it to be a euphemism for "Gor blimey", itself
> a corruption of the oath "God blind me."

	For some time I suspected that Warren Mitchell or johnny Speight
might have invented it for Alf Garnett.

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