2 years, 6 months ago
When did you last give a Continental damn? Or someone you know. Or not?
While researching an answer, I came across a CNN transcript from 2000 in which CNN anchor Kyra Phillips and CNN correspondent Larry Woods interview a ninety year old homespun artist William Payton Harris. At one point Harris says "Well, I took one year at Auburn in applied art, and it wasn't worth a continental damn." It transpires in the transcript that neither Phillips nor Woods have any idea what a Continental damn is. I am old enough to remember people using the phrase to represent something worthless, and I have researched where it came from. What I am asking here is, have you heard anyone use the phrase "Continental damn" and when did you last hear it (if you can remember)?
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