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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