Gordon Bennett etc

Originates from Oz, Gail. It's a bastardisation of 'God's truth'.

blimey is blind me, as crikey is cripple me..

Jeepers Creepers is probably a Jesus Christ corruption.

Used to be song, too, written by somebody-or-other Warren, I think...

Yeah it was in that film "Jeepers Creepers" Scaaarrrrry...

'jeepers creepers, where'd you get those peepers, where'd you get those eyes?' very old song, maybe 1930s or earlier.

They don't write 'em like that any more, Andrea. Thank goodness ;o) JEEPERS CREEPERS! where'd you get those peepers? Jeepers creepers, where'd you get those eyes? Gosh all git-up, how'd you get so lit up? Gosh all git up, how'd they get that size? Golly gee, when you turn those heaters on, Woe is me, got to put my cheaters on. Jeepers creepers, where'd you get those peepers? Oh those weepers, how they hypnotize! Where'd you get those eyes?

Strewth! Etc...

Gordon Bennett was famous for being drunk and arriving late at parties ... sheesh ... does anyone here get drunk and miss the point completely?

Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer wrote "Jeepers Creepers!"

Could be James Gordon Bennett (Senior) - U S journalist, Liana. Found this on The Original Gordon Bennett site. Born in Keith, Scotland in 1795. He moved to Nova Scotia in 1819 and later to the United States. After working for several newspapers, he founded and published the first issue of the New York Herald in May 1835 as a penny paper of four four-column pages. The newspaper was enormously successful and had the distinction of being the first American newspaper to use telegraphy extensively in reporting, to use foreign correspondents (in 1838), to illustrate news articles, to publish editorials critical of all political parties, and to print financial news from Wall Street. He also originated detailed reporting of public events, the practice of interviewing, and the system of distribution by carriers. The newspaper gained an excellent reputation for accurate reporting, especially during the Civil War.

hrm, interesting. I wonder why we use it as a sign of exasperation though?

Perhaps at such times we just feel like we need someone to tell our problems to ;o) Could be someone else though, I agree.

Found this There were, in fact, two "Gordon Bennetts," father and son, both newspaper magnates. The elder James Gordon Bennett, born in Scotland, founded the New York Herald in 1835. His son, James Gordon Bennett II, is best remembered as a journalist for sending Stanley to look for Livingstone in Africa. But it was young Gordon Bennett's extracurricular activities, including a scandal that included being horsewhipped by his fiancee's brother, that drove him into exile in Europe for the rest of his life. Once in Paris, Bennett's flamboyant lifestyle (he dithered away $40 million dollars by the time he died in 1918) made his name a household word. The earliest use of "Gordon Bennett" as an exclamation is found in print only very recently, in 1983, but popular sayings may thrive by word of mouth for many years before they are written down. "Gordon Bennett!" almost certainly actually came into spoken use during Bennett's life. But why, in any case, should the name of a newspaper magnate connote exasperation? After all, very few people routinely exclaim "Hearst!" or "Rupert Murdoch!" when they stub their toes. The answer is that "Gordon Bennett" probably arose simply as a convenient euphemism for another common British expression of surprise: "gorblimey," or what Americans know in its shortened form as the quintessential Cockney expression, "blimey!" "Gorblimey" appeared in 19th century English slang as a corruption of the oath "God blind me!", used on the same occasions of shock or distress when an American might well say "I'll be damned!" Such expressions were, until relatively recently, considered improper and even blasphemous in polite society, so when James Gordon Bennett's name was on everyone's lips at the turn of the century, it was "borrowed" to do duty as a handy euphemism. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

my Dad sometimes says "Strewth!" Always makes me chuckle. Where does that come from? I also like the expression "Jeepers Creepers!"