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Thread #13312   Message #108938
Posted By: Steve Parkes
27-Aug-99 - 07:56 AM
Thread Name: euphemistic for sex? folk songs?
Subject: RE: euphemistic for sex? folk songs?
I don't think the Hokey P/Cokey counts: you only put in things you have two of ... or do you mean - no, that'd be silly, wouldn't it?

Gosh Alison, you remind of the lady who complained to Dr Johnson that there were naughty words in his dictionary ... he said she'd have had to look 'em up to know that.

British Music Hall comic Harry Champion ("Henery the Eighth", "Any old iron") wrote a load of songs that sound as though they ought to be about sex, but aren't: "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary", "Put a bit of treacle on my pudding, Mary-Ann", "Cover it over quick, Jemima", "Of Timothy, let's have a look at it" ... I'm not sure about "Boiled beef and carrots"; if he'd called it "Meat and two veg" ...

Then there's Max Miller:
I love the girls who say they do,
I love the girls who don't;
I hate a girl who says she will
And then she says she won't.
But the kind of girl I like the best -
And I think you'll say I'm right -
Is the kind of girl who says she won't,
But look as though --
Here!!"

Steve