Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:13:50 PDT From: "//www.usa.net/~ague" Subject: Re: ?Gordon Bennett & PEW litzer I'd like to suggest that the exclamation "Gordon Bennett" has survived so long because it has the same feel as exclaiming "God Dammit", but without the onus of using a Name in vain. Particularly if Gordon is prounounced as one syllable, Gord'n. I know my sweet old grandmother would have used it, had she known of it. -- Jim