Useless InformationDid you know that crabs wee through their eyes? That maidenhair moss is so called because Anglo-saxons thought it looked like pubes? That Albanians have 17 different words for moustache? Astound us with your utterly useless and obscure knowledge.
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chthonic, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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And...Sometime around the end of the 19th century there was an eccentric American millionaire whose habit it was, upon entering a restaurant, to whip the tablecloths from the fully laden tables of the diners already present. He wasn't any good at it either, and would regularly cover the diners in their food. He would, however replace the food and buy them new clothes out of his own pocket. Nice of him!
He was called Gordon Bennett and the exclamation "Gordon Bennett!" came to be used at the time in response to spillings, knockings over and other types of accidents. It enjoyed a resurgence in the 80s but with a more generalised meaning.
So there you go, Gordon Bennett is actually American!
Try telling that to Del Boy though.
Cranberry.
(, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 20:55, Reply)
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