#double entrendre

[thesobsister]

Looking back at the 2025 Eurovision contest, I noticed these two songs.

Malta's Miriana Conte, "(Serving) Kant" (which, disappointingly, is not about Critique of Pure Reason)

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and Finland's Erika Vikman, "ICH KOMME"

And I'm not sure which is more noteworthy: a stadiumful of people yelling "kant," which, in Maltese, is a homophone for a word that would surely get a Mature tag slapped on this bad boy, or a stadiumful of people yelling "ICH KOMME," which, in German, can mean "I'm arriving," or it can mean "I am presently going to most vigorously reach the very pinnacle of physical pleasure."

I don't know what's going on across the water, but it is manifesting itself at the continent's northernmost and southernmost frontiers and possibly working its way toward the center.

Dear God, will no-one think of Luxembourg?!

[amorecrea]

Nature Poetry: Exploring the Human Connection to the Natural World

Nature: Double EntendreWild SeedsShould I go to market–or instead, dig the dirt.My soul is buried in dirt.I harvest the wild seedthat I gathered in my travels.Others mock me.They go to market to buy their produce.But the market seedswon’t grow for me.GMO you know.I plant my seedsand water them with my tears.Others mock my clicheas they eat the market produce.Weeks, months, sometimes years–I…

Nature Poetry: Exploring the Human Connection to the Natural World

[coffee-and-baddecisions]

Oh damn, that's a double entendre! Your best superpower is acting like you don't want me, hello

[2009wasagoodyear]

Arrow S03E18

[collegehumorclassics]

Double Rainbow Guy in Everyday Life

OOooohh my god double entendree

[jellobiafrasays]

when you have a little waste time, try to get around~ (postcard, c1900s?)

[angelophile]

Kenneth Williams as Rambling Syd Rumpo - The Ballad of the Wogglers Moulie

I've never been able to quite adequately explain my (and the British' as a whole) fascination with innuendo and double-entendre. Certainly it's formed a cornerstone of the British sense of humour for centuries, at the very least, but it doesn't always translate across the continents.

Back in the 1750s, dramatist Edward Moore wrote an article, where he described the double-entendre as "that happy art, by which persons of fashion may communicate the loosest ideas under the most innocent expressions". In other words, saying something innocent or meaningless, which has a filthy undertone. "For though the double entendre may sometimes admit of a moral interpretation as well as a wanton one, it is never intended to be understood but one way:," Moore said, "and he must be a simple fellow indeed, and totally unacquainted with good company, who does not take it as it was meant."

Rarely has it been better articulated than by Kenneth Williams, who honed the art on radio in Round the Horne and on film in the Carry On series. Both of which I've adored from childhood. Not, I think, because of the hidden filth, but because it was simply a case of an adult saying something which sounded utterly silly. Rambling Syd's the best example of this, dripping with intendre in his numerous made up words, which was something I loved as a child. Roald Dahl and Dickens also had a great gift of enriching the language with ridiculous words and names, but without the double-intendre that Kenneth Williams obviously so adored..