[Ads-l] May be of interest, if it's new to anyone

Robin Hamilton robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM
Tue Oct 11 10:32:14 UTC 2016


Not cited because single use?

If so, fair does.

Did the cheese-eating surrender monkeys really say "godons", not "god-drats"?

Let them eat boeuf.

Robin

> 
>     On N11 October 2016 at 11:20 Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Cited where appropriate in HDAS.
> 
>     Not cited:
> 
>     "GODDAM-GUY - An American."
> 
>     "CARKSUCCER - An American soldier."
> 
>     Cf. Fr. "Les godons," the English.
> 
>     JL
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     > Interdatings, new meanings, etc.
>     >
>     > Digger Dialects: A Collection of Slang Phrases Used by the Australian
>     > Soldie
>     > rs ...
>     > https://books.google.com/books?id=LhczAQAAMAAJ
>     > Walter Hubert Downing - 1919 - ‎Read
>     > --
>     > -Wilson
>     > -----
>     > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>     > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>     > -Mark Twain
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