Comments on: Funny Bones, 1917 (5)

By: YvonneS

YvonneS — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:45:22 +0000

Well I was prepared to over look it and chalk it up to different modes of speaking until I got the part climax and then I changed my mind. Wink Wink.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:36:36 +0000

Oh. I shoulda picked up on that. I think my vocabulary is hopeless old-fashioned — I skipped right past this one, but I blush/cringe at how my FB friends and even Keepa commenters indicate that something is, um, “not awesome.”

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:57:17 +0000

Methinks Vader is referring to the noun “ejaculation”, which I remember first encountering in a Poe tale, referencing words which burst forth from the oral orifice with powerful emotion and force, and which apparently didn’t always have the solely sexual connotation it now possesses. I think I even noticed the noun in the las couple serial stories. Isn’t it interesting how word meanings shift?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:21:49 +0000

I’m missing anything salacious in that one, Vader (maybe I just don’t see it), but fer shur the old joke pages very often contain subjects and language that would not make it into today’s magazines, even if we still published humor. The number of boss-secretary jokes, or jokes that rely on alcohol or marital discord or fighting or thievery or ethnic stereotypes for their punchlines, is astounding.

Also funny.

By: Vader

Vader — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:48:20 +0000

Hmm. “The Knittiest Woman” has some pretty salacious dialog.

Or perhaps it’s just that modern entertainment has trained me to look for risque double entendre where there isn’t any.