Comments on: Monday Comic Relief: The Wankh Awards

By: PhDork

PhDork — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:37:44 +0000

I’ve been trying to come up with one for HOURS now, but duh! A friend of mine (who still reads, I think, eh, procrastination?) and/or her husband found a children’s book at a library purge or something that was called “The Flintstones: Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and the Witch Who Ran Out of Jizzle.”

SRSLY.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:18:26 +0000

@Imogen: No doubt. It’s blatant double-entendre, which is why we found it so funny—and why we always had a good laugh at the few students who were like “No! He’s just talking about a rooster, not about morning wood and jizz!”

By: Imogen Quest

Imogen Quest — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:10:49 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure that “A Gentil Cock” is deliberate innuendo.
The last line is
“and every night he percheth him / in my lady`s chamber”

It’s a euphemism with a very long history.

By: Gexx

Gexx — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:43:54 +0000

Horatio Alger’s “Ragged Dick” always made me giggle.

By: emilyanne

emilyanne — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:06:26 +0000

Strictly speaking it’s not the Guardian’s bad sex award but lit mag, the Literary Review’s – it was created by Auberon Waugh when he edited the Review.(She said super pedantically because of a belief in sticking up for small lit publications everywhere).

Sadly I then tried to make this more relevant by thinking about a bad title but my mind went blank (probably in punishment of pedantry).

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:02:54 +0000

@bluebears: That’s priceless! Every DJ playing a gay wedding needs that one.

By: bluebears

bluebears — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:49:16 +0000

I had a good friend in high school who between her mother, sister and her had the hugest most random music collection. Anyway on some sort of compendium of songs from the 1930s or something was a song sung by a young Bing Crosby entitled, Gay Love. He really lets lose in the chorus, all, “GAAAAAAAAYYYYYY love!”

It always made us laugh, I’m sure I still have it on some mix-tape somewhere.

By: jat

jat — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:56:51 +0000

Robert Frost’s poem “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep.”

These all seem to be penis-related. Huh.

By: Mackey

Mackey — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:35:35 +0000

I realise not entirely literary, but I did have a giggle at Nietsche’s book, when translated to English was called, “The Gay Science”..

By: SkipToMyLou

SkipToMyLou — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:08:32 +0000

When I was young, my parents owned a video copy of the movie Of Human Bondage . Not so much *snicker* as *confused grossness*, even if it is Somerset Maugham.