Double Entendre Anyone?

Subject: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Fiolar
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:37 AM

I am a great fan of the double entendre and was most amused many years ago to discover that the film and music industry are not immune. The 1950 Kirk Douglas film "Young Man With a Horn" has raised some eyebrows as indeed has that great harp player and member of The Chieftains, Derek Bells marvellous album "Derek Bell Plays With Himself." Any Mudcatters got any more examples? and I don't want "The Secret Policeman's Ball."

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:48 AM

I fondly remember the Enid Blyton book entitled Mister Pink-Whistle Interferes Again... ahh, happy days...

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:54 AM

A woman walked into a bar and asked for a double entendre.
So the barman gave her one!
Sorry, no musical ones occur to me at the moment.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 09:06 AM

Baden Powell of course had his magnus opus 'Scouting for Boys' but recently I noticed at the Scout Shop in Sheffield a business plate on the office door saying Sheffield Boy Scouts Holdings Limited

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 09:07 AM

Do That To Me One More Time

I hated to hear my six-year-old daughter singing this one (complete with bump and grind). It wasn't so much the sexual entendre, but the passiveness it suggested.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 09:44 AM

LOL Mary......One of our foster girls was completely into the MeatLoaf song, "I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that." Sang it, played it all the time. Problem was, she would do THAT and everything else..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Margo
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 10:43 AM

If you really like double entendre, you should get into sea shanteys. Raise the sheets and spanker! (Best understood said outloud). There's a lot more... Margo

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Gypsy
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 11:17 AM

If our banjo player doesn't stop having problems with HIS G string....sigh

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 11:25 AM

I wanna kiss you all over, and over again.

Don't remember the band.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 11:30 AM

The first violinist for the Wichita, Kansas Symphony was once introduced in a recital this way:

"And now, Ms. Beatrice Pease, on her violin"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 11:41 AM

Well, there's the lime in at least one version of Red Rever Valley"...Can I leave her behind, unprotected?..."

Not to mention that in The Jam on Gerry's Rocks "...They granted her her final wish, to be laid by Young Monroe..."

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 11:59 AM

Non-musical: I never understood how Beaver Cleaver of "Leave It To Beaver" ever got past Ms. Goodbody, the censor.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:06 PM

Now this is the kind of question that makes me really miss my Dad. Off the top of his head he'd come up with a list of these things that would have you alternately wincing and laughing. From my limited folk song knowledge, I'd suggest the four McCurdy Dalliance records, whose raison d'être seems to be to highlight the double entendre.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Callie
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:16 PM

How is "Do That To Me One More Time " a DOUBLE entendre? What ELSE does it mean? Are they talking about playing the pink recorder or no?

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:25 PM

A guy in England, years ago, called Ken Dodd did a song which went "Happiness happiness the greatest gift that I posses, I thank the Lord that I've been blessed with more than my share of happiness" Sang with poor diction it takes on a whole different meaning. Not really double entendre but still amusing. JohnB

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:57 PM

I used to kiss her on the lips, but it's all over now; A roll on the drums, and a sandwich on the piano;

Failte

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Deda
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:18 PM

From "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter" (Fats Waller or Jelly Roll Morton?), the line "a lot of kisses on the bottom, I'll be glad I got 'em." One old dixieland musician called it the "kisses on the bottom" song.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: nutty
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:26 PM

It's the "willie" songs that always get me .....I can't sing them with a straight face

For example ( lifted straight from the DT )
But my heart grew sad again When I found you had not come; Oh! Willie, we have missed you; Welcome, welcome home!

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: open mike
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:26 PM

I think that John McCutcheon has an album of duets called "Plays Well With Others"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: nutty
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:29 PM

It's the "willie" songs that always get me .....I can't sing them with a straight face

For example ( lifted straight from the DT )
But my heart grew sad again When I found you had not come; Oh! Willie, we have missed you; Welcome, welcome home!

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:35 PM

my friends dad always used to say eat every potato and PEA on your plate.

I also know one that my grandad used to say in Czech but it doesnt translate to English.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Madam Gashee
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:41 PM

I attended a rehearsal of local shanty group in the upstairs room of their local. When we reached a natural beer-break I offered to go to the bar downstairs & fetch up the drinks... However what I said was " I'm going down if anyone wants anything!!" Totally unintentionally wrecking their rehearsal!

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 04:30 PM

I keep missing you but my aims gettin better.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: alison
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 07:21 PM

Jack the sailor.... the group was "Exile" - the son "I want to kiss you all over".... takes me right back to my disco days ... *grin*

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:27 PM

If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:33 PM

Do you prefer roses on a piano or tulips on an organ?

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:40 PM

My Sister can't wrestle, but you should see her box....

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: ddw
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:58 PM

Blues tunes are loaded with double entendre. On the way to work I was listening to Robert Johnson's Travelling Riverside.

You can squeeze my lemon
Till the juice runs down my leg

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,Adrienne
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 09:39 PM

My son's new Blink-182 CD made me raise my eyebrows..."Take Off Your Pants and Jacket".

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Tinker
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 09:44 PM

The blues again... Hannah Johnson's big jack ass is on the block for sale....

Tinker

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:12 AM

The classic is of course, "Londonderry Air"

The last verse for the song Jolly Tinker:

Well I've been a jolly Tinker for these 40 years or more
But such a rusty hole as that, I've never blocked before.

One of my non-musical favorites is from the UK comedy Thin Blue Line - there is a lot of them in the show, but the best of them (especially from an American's perspective) was the one when the head of the detective squad was afraid that a mistake made by Rowan Atkinson's character would get him fired. The quote: Your cock-up: my ass! How that ever made it past even the Public Broadcasting Censors in the U.S. is beyond me.

pax yall

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:40 AM

"Are ye home Mrs. MacPherson?"---"Aye; what d'ye want!"---" I'm sellin' tickets for the Thanksgivin' dance>"----"Sorry--cannae go, I'm under the doctor."----"Oh-ask the doctor if he wants a ticket----"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 07:12 AM

John Denvers' 'the cowboy and the lady' contains the immortal (or is it immoral?) line and there's a little bit of cowboy in the lady!

DtG

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 07:22 AM

If your Uncle Jack was on a horse and couldn't get down, would you help your Uncle Jack off the horse?

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Fiolar
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 11:51 AM

Great stuff. I never realise that there are so many dirty minded people on the forum. :-)

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Madam Gashee
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 11:53 AM

"With her topsails all a quiver"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Kim C
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 12:20 PM

what's that shanty about Jack and the fireship? Oh yeah. Rattle Me Riggin. Full of 'em. She loved him up and turned him into a toad, she did. ;-)

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:42 PM

I hate every bone in your body except for mine (another one of the bad country songs)

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST,Seque
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 02:21 PM

If we are going to wallow in the gutter, how about taking famous movie titles and converting them to porno movie titles:

The Mighty Aphrodite= The Mighty Hermaphrodite.

Songcatcher = Schlongcatcher.

Saving Private Ryan = Shaving Ryan's Privates.

Children of a Lesser God = Children of a Lesser Sod.

Mr. Holland's Opus = Mr. Holland's Puss.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 03:09 PM

I said pretty maiden it's time to give o'er; For twixt wind and water you've run me ashore; Me shot locker's empty, me powder's all spent; And I can't fire more shot 'cos it's choked at the vent. "Cruisin' round Yarmouth" and in the same song "Her lily-white hand on me reef tackle fall" Jock

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 03:16 PM

Just remembered another wonderfull one, it's more hidden meaning than outright double entendre, but v good NTL. "As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow,and I rolled up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe" An illusion to condoms which in Ireland where this song comes from, condoms were at that time illegal. Jock

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: dwditty
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 04:19 PM

Personally, I prefer the single entendre...get right to the point.

Sinsull, how aboout when June used to say, "Ward, aren't you being a little hard on the Beaver?"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Deckman
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:19 AM

I feel forced to contribute the classic carpenters line ... "she cried as she lifted her wooden leg ... lumbers' goin up!". CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Ritchie
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 07:01 AM

the classic line from the film 'porky's' which I'm sure inspired a lot of Bart Simpson's one liners, is the part where some one phones up the bar and asks for "Mike Hunt" The barmaid then shouts out to everybody in the bar " Has anybody seen Mike Hunt ?" I've seen this done and had to stuff a hanky in my mouth as I rolled onto the floor.

The other one is where the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy would ask a girl in the audience if she had any Irish in her. When she replied no, he would then ask her if she wanted some. The Cad !

still a naughty boy at heart Ritchie.

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: kendall
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:15 AM

Bob Hope, in the days of strict censorship got this one by, "I met her by the Pawn Shop and she kissed me under the balls,"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:24 PM

50 Yards to the Outhouse ... written by Willie Makeit... edited by Betty Dont.

LL

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: MAG
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 03:07 PM

Bonny Black Hare still takes the prize, I think -- surely it's in the DB --

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 07:33 PM

Ofmcourse there was the classic cricket commentary when the announcer said"The batsmans Holding the bowlers Willie"
I too made a similar faux pas once when I shouted to some children lining up after playtime "Would you boys please hold your balls in the line!"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: bill\sables
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 08:00 PM

At the retirement banquet of General De Gaul, Mrs De Gaul was asked by the wife of the British Prime Minster what she looked forward to most about her husband retireing. She answered "A penis" at which point the General leaned over to the questioner and explained "She means Happiness"

Subject: RE: Double Entendre Anyone?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:43 PM

Well, as the once-renowned English Doctor Jekyll once remarked, "We have nothing to hide but Hyde itself!"