Double entendres

Man really has so little appreciation of olfaction that the English language itself in that connection is atrophied. It is impossible to make the simple declarative statement, "He smells," without risk of double entendre. . . ... 

The powers that be at ICI acknowledged Joe s election to the Royal Society by throwing a banquet at their Millbank headquarters on the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament, and we and our wives all trooped down to celebrate. No expense was spared, and even the beer drinkers amongst us remarked on the quality of the wines served. Joe was not ICI s favourite son, but they were in a cleft stick and they did what was expected of them. True, the Main Board Research Director of the day, a lugubrious and inscrutable Scotsman, in a speech notable for the delicacy with which he placed his feet, did describe Joe as a complex character . One had the suspicion that no double-entendre was meant. 

Hence the double entendre implied by the recommendation Believe me, nobody could do a better job than he ... 

Pregnant, Cinyras flees her father s wrath to Saba s soil (southwest Arabia), where she becomes a tree. Weeping, as does Isis, she bears a son. Using magnificent double entendre, Ovid observes ... 

Erlenmeyer, Aufgabe, 32-33.1 have tried to fashion an English translation that reflects Er-lenmeyer s repeated double entendres between chemical and political terminology. The German of the last word of the translation is "Einwohner."... 

Humor can have unfortunate, unintended side effects because what is funny to one person may be tasteless or offensive to another. People of a different ethnic and national background from the writer of the procedures may interpret the humor in ways that were never intended but which, nevertheless, cause offense. Even simple technical words can have unanticipated meanings. For this reason, Enghsh and American engineers working in one another s countries need a quick course in double entendre. 

Erin I never thought about it that way. Mostly because I was never into the movies as a kid. My dad loved them, but they re not exactly in a genre that s marketed to young girls, you know So I didn t get into them until later, when there would be festival showings of them at local theaters and everyone would get drunk and throw stuff at the screen every time Bond lit a cigarette or used a double entendre. 

Rendering the use of kur as alienation at the demise of various kingships in the Sumerian King List (Cooper 1983 29) perhaps a double entendre. 

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