Nothing new about this subject. The double entendre riddle has been around a long time due to its popularity. This one, from my dog-eared and frayed copy of Penguin Classics' "The Earliest English Poems" is a translation from around the 8th century, possibly earlier: Swings by his thigh a thing most magical! Below the belt, beneath the folds of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end, stiff-set & stout, but swivels about. Levelling the head of this hanging instrument, its weilder hoists his hem above the knee: it is his will to fill a well-known hole that it fits fully when at full length. He has often filled it before. Now he fills it again. The answer of course: a key. (click and drag to highlight and reveal)
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