Free Association Thread 5

[JKendallDane]

Another of the superior humour, I'm thinking.
How Mollie Sugden kept a straight face is one of the eternal mysteries.

Heard this one ?

Tim Conway had that talent and could play it so straight when he decided to derail the cast it was comedic mayhem. If you've never seen him do the "elephant story" to the Carol Burnett gang and destroy everyone in the process, watch this one all the way through. The ending is hysterical!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

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[Handley_Page]

Tim Conway had that talent and could play it so straight when he decided to derail the cast it was comedic mayhem. If you've never seen him do the "elephant story" to the Carol Burnett gang and destroy everyone in the process, watch this one all the way through. The ending is hysterical!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

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Complete chaos, I think !
Wonderful straight-face, that.

Heard about Mrs Slocombe's pussy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9KqigbdJw

 

[JKendallDane]

Complete chaos, I think !
Wonderful straight-face, that.

Heard about Mrs Slocombe's pussy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9KqigbdJw

I always loved Mrs. Slocombe...especially when she talked about her pussy.

Course helped that at the same time she was tossing that term around at will, the censors in the US were trying to decide if having Archie Bunker flush the toilet on TV was more than our delicate ears could handle.

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[Handley_Page]

I always loved Mrs. Slocombe...especially when she talked about her pussy.

Course helped that at the same time she was tossing that term around at will, the censors in the US were trying to decide if having Archie Bunker flush the toilet on TV was more than our delicate ears could handle.

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Yes, I can see that that might cause a problem (!!).
What your US censors decide has, on occasion, made us roar with laughter over here.
At one time, married couples slept in twin beds (the making of children was a mystery unsolved) and she always wore pyjamas done up to the neck. This from the nation that gave us some serious Porn ?????
But then, I suppose TV/film viewers can vote with their wallets . . . .
Well, they might; can we take the risk ?????

 

[HBergeron]

Yes, I can see that that might cause a problem (!!).
What your US censors decide has, on occasion, made us roar with laughter over here.
At one time, married couples slept in twin beds (the making of children was a mystery unsolved) and she always wore pyjamas done up to the neck. This from the nation that gave us some serious Porn ?????
But then, I suppose TV/film viewers can vote with their wallets . . . .
Well, they might; can we take the risk ?????

Censorship does come and go - when Hitchcock made 'Notorious' he fashioned a kissing scene with Grant and Bergman so that they would constantly be talking while they were kissing because there was a literal time limit on how long a kiss could last on screen. The final cut was so much sexier as a result. Take THAT Puritans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xRZeIZAx8

 

[Handley_Page]

Censorship does come and go - when Hitchcock made 'Notorious' he fashioned a kissing scene with Grant and Bergman so that they would constantly be talking while they were kissing because there was a literal time limit on how long a kiss could last on screen. The final cut was so much sexier as a result. Take THAT Puritans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xRZeIZAx8

I wonder how much of that was Hitcock's 'up yours' to the censors or a decent contribution from the writer/s ?? (But she was a Very Pretty Lady. . .)

 

[JKendallDane]

What your US censors decide has, on occasion, made us roar with laughter over here.
At one time, married couples slept in twin beds (the making of children was a mystery unsolved) and she always wore pyjamas done up to the neck.

I wonder how much of that was Hitcock's 'up yours' to the censors or a decent contribution from the writer/s ?? (But she was a Very Pretty Lady. . .)

I Love Lucy was the first show to even attempt dealing with pregnancy but they had little choice with the main star starting to look like a "before picture" for Weight Watchers. Since that was the 1950s. I'm just surprised that the censors only required that the writers never use the "pregnancy" word and didn't also stipulate that the episode where she finally gives birth had to include three wise men and happen in a stable.

Looking back, I think the writers and producers that gave the biggest "Fuck you" to the censors originally, in the US at least, were the game shows. The Newlywed Game, Hollywood Squares, and Match Game were all notorious for using double entendres constantly and that were blatantly in-your-face to the censors.

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[Handley_Page]

I Love Lucy was the first show to even attempt dealing with pregnancy but they had little choice with the main star starting to look like a "before picture" for Weight Watchers. Since that was the 1950s. I'm just surprised that the censors only required that the writers never use the "pregnancy" word and didn't also stipulate that the episode where she finally gives birth had to include three wise men and happen in a stable.

Looking back, I think the writers and producers that gave the biggest "Fuck you" to the censors originally, in the US at least, were the game shows. The Newlywed Game, Hollywood Squares, and Match Game were all notorious for using double entendres constantly and that were blatantly in-your-face to the censors.

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I think that the UK gave up TV censors at an early stage; certainly in the 60s, when the tempo of humour started to change. TW3 was a riot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8ac4catVk

My Father hated it . . . .

 

[Handley_Page]

re: hallowe'en

I thought that this might prompt a thought or two:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/30/ghost_wedding/

 

[JKendallDane]

I thought that this might prompt a thought or two:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/30/ghost_wedding/

That story kind of gives an entirely new meaning to: "Is it in yet?"

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[Handley_Page]

That story kind of gives an entirely new meaning to: "Is it in yet?"

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A real insult at some time. . .

 

[HBergeron]

A real insult at some time. . .

Old joke:

Her: "I didn't realize you would have such a small organ."
Him: "I didn't know I would be playing in such a large cathedral."

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Old joke:

Her: "I didn't realize you would have such a small organ."
Him: "I didn't know I would be playing in such a large cathedral."

There was a young woman from Nizes
Whose breasts were of two different sizes.
One was so small
It was nothing at all,
But the other was large and won prizes.

 

[HBergeron]

There was a young woman from Nizes
Whose breasts were of two different sizes.
One was so small
It was nothing at all,
But the other was large and won prizes.

Hahaha - No lie at all - that was my first live-in girlfriend. A birth defect and surgeries left her with two different sized breasts. I always felt like I was having a menage a trois with just her and her boobs. They were both luscious.

 

[Handley_Page]

Hahaha - No lie at all - that was my first live-in girlfriend. A birth defect and surgeries left her with two different sized breasts. I always felt like I was having a menage a trois with just her and her boobs. They were both luscious.

I remember my daughter saying something similar; she complained that buying a bra was a bit of a problem.

 

[JKendallDane]

I remember my daughter saying something similar; she complained that buying a bra was a bit of a problem.

When I was in high school I worked for a while at an old style department store. One of the most popular employees was a older lady that ran the lingerie department...imagine a shorter version of Mrs. Slocum and several cup sizes larger.

She had a wide reputation for being able to help any woman find the perfect fit when it came to bras. Quite often she would get asked how she had developed such a talent and her response was almost always the same...she would thrust out her overly-ample chest and say:

"Honey, if I can find a bra to control these boulders without being in constant pain, every other set in the county is a piece of cake."

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[Handley_Page]

When I was in high school I worked for a while at an old style department store. One of the most popular employees was a older lady that ran the lingerie department...imagine a shorter version of Mrs. Slocum and several cup sizes larger.

She had a wide reputation for being able to help any woman find the perfect fit when it came to bras. Quite often she would get asked how she had developed such a talent and her response was almost always the same...she would thrust out her overly-ample chest and say:

"Honey, if I can find a bra to control these boulders without being in constant pain, every other set in the county is a piece of cake."

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The alternative, as I am reliably informed is surgery.
At this point she shut up.

 

[JKendallDane]

The alternative, as I am reliably informed is surgery.
At this point she shut up.

How about a really off-the-wall segue from boobs to the age-old question of:

Toilet paper...over or under?

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[Handley_Page]

How about a really off-the-wall segue from boobs to the age-old question of:

Toilet paper...over or under?

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Simples: "Over".

 

[JKendallDane]

Simples: "Over".

That's fine...but what if you have cats?

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[Handley_Page]

That's fine...but what if you have cats?

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keep them out of the bathroom.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

keep them out of the bathroom.

Lockouts and Strikes

 

[Handley_Page]

Lockouts and Strikes

Like an annoyed factory protest ?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Like an annoyed factory protest ?

or a constitutional peasantry

 

[JKendallDane]

or a constitutional peasantry

Reminds me of what I told an older cousin that regularly berates me for "not being supportive of the president" ...

Perhaps when you people that make excuses for everything he does and accept he is running the country as some kind of weird Monty Python combination of Animal House and Animal Farm, then my attitude might change.

I think he took it as an insult.

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