Crude Joke at ESA
Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>
lupinesque at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 18 10:40:35 UTC 2003
Diana wrote:
> That joke
> was very tasteless to tell at the expense of a
> thirteen-year-old boy *and* in front of room full of
> people! My husband wondered whether the
> erection-reference of the joke went over Daniel
> Radcliffe's head
Very possibly. That would be just as bad, IMO. I recall the extreme
discomfort at that age of knowing that things had meanings that I
couldn't quite comprehend but that made adults laugh. I can still
blush at a memory of innocently using what seemed like an appropriate
phrase to describe Mom's dragging me out of a social gathering before
I wanted to go, and being informed by her (amidst giggles)
that "jerked off" had another meaning (but not what it was . . . I
guess I finally learned that from the proverbial playground). Even
once kids know the biological facts, which one hopes to heaven a 13-
year-old boy does, they don't get double entendres quite as fast as
we jaded adults do.
Amy
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