Gordon Bennet (was re: cockney)

[jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)]

> Gordon Bennet was a racing driver many years ago who instigated a race on the
> Isle Of Man called the Gordon Bennet Isle Of Man TT. Oh! and the Toledo
> a really awful Triumph.

More likely, the phrase came from General Gordon Bennet of WW2, whose bad
decisions greatly contributed to the British losing Singapore to the Japanese.