David Honig wrote:
and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding.
So Ken if you read that Blair was near Thatcher's house and knocked her up, Yanks would think something very different from Brits.
You've been listening to those old Max Miller records again, haven't you? And they are very old: "Have you heard about the girl of eighteen who swallowed a pin, but didn't feel the prick until she was twenty-one?" "I was walking along this narrow mountain pass - so narrow that nobody else could pass you, when I saw a beautiful blonde, with not a stitch on - yes, not a stitch on, lady. Cor blimey, I didn't know whether to toss myself off or block her passage." "Which would you like, the blue book or the white book? You like both don't you. Listen, I was in Spain four years ago and all the girls wear little knives in the top of their stocking. I found that out......... So I said to myself, I'll find exactly what's the idea in wearing a knife on the top of the stocking and she said, that's to defend my honour, I said, what, a little tiny knife like that...... I said that, if you were in Brighton, you would need a set of carvers!" et.c et.c et.c So this woman walks into a pub and asks for a double entendre, and the barman says "Do you want a large one?"