http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74Xs1VuYAE

There are two theories about this one. One points to the very low social status of tinkers, itinerant menders of pots and pans, and to their well-known tendency to include a swearword in every sentence. So to say that something “isn’t worth a tinker’s damn” is to say that it’s of no value at all, not worth even a moment’s consideration.

A more ingenious explanation was put forward in the latter part of the nineteenth century: when a tinker was soldering a pot, he would make a small wall out of bread dough around the place he was to flood with solder in order to stop it from spreading. After he had finished, he would naturally throw the dough away as being of no further use, so that “a tinker’s dam” was equally something of no value.

I think the first explanation is probably the correct one. Many of the words we consider vulgar/profane and, therefore, unacceptable, were in common use by people who were considered common, that is to say, vulgar. (See definitions 2.b. and 4.):

vul·gar adj.
1.Crudely indecent.
2.
a.Deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.
b. Marked by a lack of good breeding; boorish. See Synonyms at common.
c. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious: the huge vulgar houses and cars of the newly rich.
3. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular: the technical and vulgar names for an animal species.
4. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.

The Latin Vulgate is written in “vulgar” Latin. The New Testament was written in Koine (common, i.e. vugar) Greek.

I grew up in an environment where saying “heck” and “darn” was a sin. Times change.

The Biblical principle by which we should live is this:

Eph 4:25, 29
25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE OF YOU WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.

…

29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.
NASU

Are liberals documented in the bible?
uptight on August 25, 2008 at 12:27 AM

Sure are. Here you go:

1Jo 2:18 Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the end of the world has come. (NLT)

Liberals arent necessarily THE Antichrist, but most if not all of them are certainly anti-Christ.

God bless Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, and moonbats everywhere for doing at least 70% of our job for us.

There’s socialism in every leftist’s heart.

And a hatred of Jews.

It means “condemned”.
No one says a condemned thing…?
Not a smart use of the word.

jgapinoy on August 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM

Quit smoking the pages of your dictionary. “Damned” is an expletive (and the name of a loud band). It means something along the lines of “friggin, confounded or f*ckin.”

in use: That damned comment was the dumbest I have read in a long time.

HA!!! W.C Fields couldn’t have said it better! Cheers!

Kini on August 25, 2008 at 12:10 AM

::hic::

“Everybody’s talkin’ and noone says a word…”

I ask because I’ve steadily come to the conclusion that liberal activism is a sort of mental illness. If so, it must have manifested over history.

I’d put more thought to it, but I’m about to recreate 69

I fully support the Left’s right to shut down opposing views. After all I never listen to a word they say.

OldEnglish on August 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM

HA!!! W.C Fields couldn’t have said it better! Cheers!

http://i36.tinypic.com/fp5a9g.jpg

Crazy b______s.

By the way, SMART people use the word “damned” all the time. I suspect it might even be in the Bible and some of the greatest literature of all time.

It means “condemned”.
No one says a condemned thing…?
Not a smart use of the word.