Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Cupid Stunt		Post: 1

I don't even know where to begin...

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 26, 2004 by fords - TISWAS '13 A87788524 This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 2

*puts sellotape over mouth in attempt to keep it clean*

But seriously, great pudding

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 3

Now, now! Don't start. Even I have managed to keep it clean so far, unlike with A2086247.

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Great Omnipotent Tigger This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 4

Does anybody have the OED (you should pardon the expression)handy? m-w.com shows the "Chiefly British" use of the word "dick" as meaning "fellow, chap". So at least once upon a time this was a neutral word. The recipe calls for rolling the dough "into a cylinder". Is this cylinder the source of our linguistic and eponymic confusion? If only the dish could be served to a chorus of "ooh's" and "aah's" rather than snickers. (I'd better quit. Everything sounds like a double entendre now!)

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 5

You mean this is all a load of eponymous bosh?

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Great Omnipotent Tigger This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 6

Actually the artist's brother, but Eponymymous was only his nickname...his real name was The-Garden-of-Earthly-Delights.

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 27, 2004 by Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 7

Now you're just being a clever dick .

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 27, 2004 by Great Omnipotent Tigger This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 8

...being that his name was so long, people called him by his initials, but since it was so ungainly to call "Hey, T.G.O.E.D.!" they gave him his other nickname -- Acronymous.

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Subject: Double entendre... Posted Jul 30, 2004 by Cupid Stunt This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 9

Thanks for poiting out the innuendo entry, I'll be busy sniggerring and making jokes for the next few hours...

I suppose I should have had an innuendo in there, but I had trouble getting it in...

Some people say I have an obsession with double entendre. Well, they're right! I've got a big one!

Subject: Double entendre... Posted Dec 30, 2004 by FordsTowel This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 10

Thanks All for chiming in!

Hey GOT! It may be that the reverse is true. Perhaps it was the shape, coloring, etc., of the desert that became the historical source for the euphamism!?!?

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