Gordon Bennett is often used as a mild expletive phrase in Britain, inter changeable with words like crikey or Jesus! Just who is Gordon Bennett though I often wondered? Gordon Bennett was in fact the wealthy son of a Scottish immigrant to the US of the same name who set up the New York Herald.
His outlandish behaviour (such as urinating into the fireplace at an extremely posh party)often led to scandals and it was most likely for this reason his name was chosen as a play on words of "Gor Blimey!" itself a variation of the phrase "God! Blind Me!"
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