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They/we really don't! :) A guy I used to know was telling about a British children's TV show where all the characters names were actually double entendres. It
by jahnu 5y ago
They/we really don't! :)
A guy I used to know was telling about a British children's TV show where all the characters names were actually double entendres.
It just so happened that I had recently read the fascinating story about how this wasn't true at all, despite the press writing that it was and so on and it was just a successful urban legend.
He said no it's really true, he'd seen it himself on TV. I later sent him over email the article describing the legend. Anyway he got really mad at me for just saying that and went round telling people I was an asshole for destroying this story for him. I was really surprised that someone could be so upset by that.
http://doyoupunctuate.com/captain-pugwash-dirty-pirates/ http://doyoupunctuate.com/captain-pugwash-dirty-pirates/
- MattPalmer1086 5y agoAh, the old Captain Pugwash urban legend! I think I used to believe that a long time ago. I can understand why he got upset though if you rained on his parade in front of other people. It was probably a pet story he enjoyed telling. Something I have also been guilty of!
- jimmytidey 5y agoHowever 1950s BBC radio was full of double entres that the higher up management didn't understand. Round The Horn in particular.
- dcminter 5y agoI adore the wordplay in RtH. On a similar note, however, a colleague tried to shock me (he thought I was more straightlaiced than I am) by asking if I'd heard Cardi B's WAP. I took great pleasure in retaliating with the song "My Girl's Pussy" from 1931 which is what you might call a great deal of entendre without very much double.
- jimmytidey 5y agoThanks - not heard this before! Impossible to imagine how this could go over people's heads. Says something about how narrow many people's cultural horizons were in the 1930s I guess. According my parent's retelling of the RtH story, the humour is a result of posh people (who get to make BBC comedy) being exposed to working class while serving in WW2, although there is obviously gay subculture in there too.