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Les goddams (sometimes les goddems [1] or les goddons [2]) is an obsolete ethnic slur historically used by the French to refer to the English, based on their frequent expletives. [3] The name originated during the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) between England and France, when English soldiers were notorious among the French for their frequent ...
Goddam may refer to: Adam Goddam (c. 1300–1358), English Franciscan theologian; Goddam, the parody of Gollum in the book Bored of the Rings; les goddams, ...
"Mississippi Goddam" is a song written and performed by American singer and pianist Nina Simone, who later announced the anthem to be her "first civil rights song". [1] Composed in less than an hour, the song emerged in a “rush of fury, hatred, and determination” as she "suddenly realized what it was to be black in America in 1963."
God Damn (band), an English band "God Damn" (song), by Avenged Sevenfold; See also. Goddam (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 14 April ...
"The next two are the last two, and the first one is called 'Go Limp'—and when we get to the middle of it, I'm going to talk to you again, and see how you feel about joining me. We'll see how the atmosphere feels by then. And then we'll end with 'Mississippi Goddam', which, of course, has no explanation."
In Indian English, there is an incorrect etymology connecting "I don't give a damn" with the dam, a 16th-century copper coin. Salman Rushdie , in a 1985 essay on the dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms Hobson-Jobson , ends with this: " ' Frankly, my dear, I don't give a small copper coin weighing one tolah , eight mashas and seven surkhs, being ...
Driving people around is no easy business. They come with all sorts of personalities, emotions, and expectations, bringing together not just their baggage, but also a certain degree of ...
The Tolkien scholar David Bratman, writing in Mythlore, quotes an extended passage from the book in which Frito, Spam Gangree , and Goddam jostle on the edge of the "Black Hole" (a tar pit), commenting "Those parodists wrought better than they knew". He explains that Tolkien, in his many drafts, came very close to "inadvertently writing the ...