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Look on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.
Gilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.
What really offends me is that the Mirror regards this as offensive, on the basis that it's modelled on a part of the body possessed by close on half the world's population.
Quote from: Shaker on November 09, 2015, 11:15:56 AMWhat really offends me is that the Mirror regards this as offensive, on the basis that it's modelled on a part of the body possessed by close on half the world's population.Considering some of the things which, over the years, the Morror has found acceptable this is, in a way, actually logical from the Mirror's point of view.
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on November 09, 2015, 08:33:45 AMGilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.That's from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall is it not. Actually he was Old Scrotum the Wrinkled Retainer. Also included the contract house cleaners and "resting theatrical artistes," Teddy Tidy and Nigel Nice (aka Nice and Tidy).
Quote from: ProfessorDavey on November 09, 2015, 01:05:00 PMQuote from: Harrowby Hall on November 09, 2015, 08:33:45 AMGilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.That's from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall is it not. Actually he was Old Scrotum the Wrinkled Retainer. Also included the contract house cleaners and "resting theatrical artistes," Teddy Tidy and Nigel Nice (aka Nice and Tidy).I first found it in Obsenity and the Law (1956) by Norman St John Stevas. I suspect Vivian Stanshall "borrowed" it - or he may have independently invented the same joke.
According to legend, Gilbert and Sullivan wrote an obscene work under the name The Sod's Opera, with characters including Count Tostoff (a ruined Pole), the Brothers Bollox (a pair of hangers-on), and Scrotum (a wrinkled old retainer) - and, by way of corroborative detail, it is said that, for many years, a copy was kept in the guardroom at St James's Palace - but there is no authoritative record of this remarkable creation.
Quote from: jeremyp on November 09, 2015, 05:47:21 AMLook on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.the original is used for carrying the most important things a man has around in
Quote from: Owlswing on November 09, 2015, 08:45:43 AMQuote from: jeremyp on November 09, 2015, 05:47:21 AMLook on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.the original is used for carrying the most important things a man has around in That's a load of bollocks, and you know it.
