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Article #624591Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Radey Shouman
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:05
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:05
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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. --
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