[tom s]

Come on page 11!

[63Banshee]

Originally Posted by tom s

Come on page 11!

I know you think all the discussion reflects a promising future for Sprint Cup, but that isn't necessarily the case. Boring follow the leader racing and low/no tallant drivers getting rides because of who their daddy/brother is/was or how tight a chicks ass is won't cut it long-term.

[ho428]

Originally Posted by 63Banshee

She's an average chick model wannabe who doesn't stand a chance at modeling without racing hype and she doesn't care as much about racing as she does modeling. She's not going to grow balls (figuratively) or boobs (literally), so she's screwed either way. Yet the sheeple buy into the BS and she banks.

... Just noticed others said similar. Great minds think alike.

Good thing none of the guys do stuff like that....

[63Banshee]

Originally Posted by ho428

Good thing none of the guys do stuff like that....

I've got plenty to say about the worthless swing'n dicks in NASCAR as well. See above post.

[ho428]

Originally Posted by 63Banshee

I've got plenty to say about the worthless swing'n dicks in NASCAR as well. See above post.

Yeah, I can see where you might consider a driver with 19 Cup wins, 38 Nationwide wins, 6 truck wins, Rookie of the year in Trucks and Nationwide, and Sprint Cup Points runner up twice to be considered worthless.

[tom s]

The real fact of the matter is I dont give a tinkers damn what people post on here about NASCAR!I will still watch,I will still go to a track and watch and maybe run a few more laps at a track.I just get a kick out of all the Danica and even more NASCAR haters.Tom

[63Banshee]

Originally Posted by ho428

Yeah, I can see where you might consider a driver with 19 Cup wins, 38 Nationwide wins, 6 truck wins, Rookie of the year in Trucks and Nationwide, and Sprint Cup Points runner up twice to be considered worthless.

You posted his picture. I didn't include it in the quote because I wasn't talking about him.

[tom s]

It's in the dictionary!

[hurryinhoosier62]

Tom,

DITTOS!

[Alvin]

Just finished watching this past weekends NHRA AZ NATS IN Phx and had A Laugh Out Loud when they put this on screen and read it out loud:

FOLLOW TWITTER @ NHRA
@TerryBlountESPN (ESPN Reporter)
John Force today in the Ariz. Republic:

[hurryinhoosier62]

You gotta laugh! Force has NEVER been known for his demure bearing.

[Alvin]

And Erica won AGAIN!

[Region Warrior]

"She hasnt earned a ride".
Not into most other series, but never heard of at least 10 other drivers before they started racing in cup.

[Sirrotica]

The real fact of the matter is I dont give a tinkers damn what people post on here about NASCAR!I will still watch,I will still go to a track and watch and maybe run a few more laps at a track.

Yep, X2, as well as dirt tracks in my case. Where the race lasts more than 10 seconds and you have to turn the steering wheel to get to the finish line.

People with ADHD can't be NASCAR or oval track fans because they can't focus long enough to enjoy the experience...........................

I also know what a "Tinker's Damn" is, My father used the phrase regularly...............

[63Banshee]

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

I also know what a "Tinker's Damn" is, My father used the phrase regularly...............

Something like a Dick Trickle?

[Sirrotica]

Basically it means something that has little value or merit, usually someones opinion.


tinker's damn
noun
1.
the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
Idioms
2.
care / give a tinker's damn, to have or feel little or no concern; be unaffected or unmoved: I don't care a tinker's damn for their opinions.
Also, tinker's dam.

Origin:
1830–40; from tinkers' alleged habit of cursing frequently (hence weakening the force of a curse)

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

Also, tinker's dam.

Origin:
1830–40; from tinkers' alleged habit of cursing frequently (hence weakening the force of a curse)

I'm sorry to digress, but I thought the origin of "tinker's dam" had to do with silversmithing.

A silversmith was known as a "tinker" and worked with solder. They would use a clay like substance to keep the solder from running out of position, hence a "tinker's dam".

Also gave birth to the phrase "tinkerer" - as someone who putters around in a small shop.

I cannot cite references...

K

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

I'm sorry to digress, but I thought the origin of "tinker's dam" had to do with silversmithing.

A silversmith was known as a "tinker" and worked with solder. They would use a clay like substance to keep the solder from running out of position, hence a "tinker's dam".

Also gave birth to the phrase "tinkerer" - as someone who putters around in a small shop.

I cannot cite references...

K

Keith, I guess it makes a difference of who you ask, still means of little consequence.


A tinker's damn

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Meaning

Something that is insignificant or worthless.
Origin

There's some debate over whether this phrase should be 'tinker's dam' - a small dam to hold solder, made by tinkers when mending pans, or 'tinker's damn' - a tinker's curse, considered of little significance because tinkers were reputed to swear habitually.
If we go back to 1877, in the Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, Edward Knight puts forward this definition:

"Tinker's-dam - a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The material can be but once used; being consequently thrown away as worthless."

That version of events has gone into popular folklore and many people believe it. After all, any definition written as early has 1877 has to be true doesn't it?
Knight may well have been a fine mechanic but there has to be some doubt about his standing as an etymologist. There is no corroborative evidence for his speculation and he seems to have fallen foul of the curse of folk etymologists - plausibility. If an ingenious story seems to neatly fit the bill then it must be true. Well, in this case, it isn't. The Victorian preference of 'dam' over 'damn' may also owe something to coyness over the use of a profanity in polite conversation.
That interpretation of the phrase was well enough accepted in Nevada in 1884 for the Reno Gazette to report its use in the defence of a Methodist preacher who was accused of the profanity of using the term 'tinker's dam':

"It isn't profane any more to say tinker's dam. The minister stated that a tinker's dam was a dam made by itinerant menders of tinware on a pewter plate to contain the solder".

The same view was expressed in the Fitchburg Sentinel newspaper in 1874.
The problem with that interpretation is that all those accounts ignore an earlier phrase - 'a tinker's curse' (or cuss), which exemplified the reputation tinkers had for habitual use of profanity. This example from John Mactaggart's The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824, predates Knight's version in the popular language:

"A tinkler's curse she did na care what she did think or say."

In the Grant County Herald, Wisconsin, 1854, we have:

"There never was a book gotten up by authority and State pay, that was worth a tinker's cuss".

So, we can forget about plumbing. The earlier phrase simply migrated the short distance from 'curse' to 'damn' to give us the proper spelling of the phrase - tinker's damn.

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[tom s]

Nice job Brad!Tom

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by tom s

Nice job Brad!Tom

TY Tom,