[gcruse]

Who gives a Tinker's Damn about the Travelers

It's an interesting story.  I hope you've learned
something since posting the above.  Anyway,
it's a tinker's dam, not damn.  But you probably
don't want to learn why that is either.
 

[Conservababe]

Oh, but I would like to know why the difference in Tinker's dam and damn. Please tell me.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

from http://www.richmonville.com/a_short_history.htm

"Have you ever heard something being referred to as; "not being worth a tinkers damn"? It came thusly. In his wanderings, a tinker would pick up a small bit of clay, using it as a "damn" around a spot to be repaired in a pot."

Apparantly others beside me spell dam as damn. Oh well sick the grammarians on me. I still don't give a Tinkers Damn about the Travelers. I'm much more worried about coummunists, socialists, and Muslims who make Travelers look like pillars of hte community.