A BBC4 programme last night, on the great British seaside holiday, featured that classic joke, courtesy (I think) of Donald McGill:
Man to female shop assistant: "Excuse me miss, do you keep stationery?""Well, sometimes I wriggle around a bit."
Sadly I've been unable to find a picture of the actual postcard. Googling for saucy postcards produces this, from a later period when they were just plain crude. Googling for "do you keep stationery?" comes up with other later versions, like this:
While vacationing in the hills of Arkansas, the big city man discovered he had no writing paper at all for his personal correspondence.He went into the small town near-by and found only an old-fashioned country store. Behind the counter was a really nice looking young lass, quite obviously a local farm girl.
He asked, "Do you keep stationery?"
"Well," she giggled, "I can...until I have an orgasm, then I just go plain wild and crazy!"
Laugh? No, I didn't.
Then I googled "wriggle around a bit". Don't ask (nsfw).
And no, I didn't mean "wiggle around a bit".
Oh well. I still think it's funny.
What exactly is the difference between "wiggle" and "wriggle"? Is it just "to_may_to" "to_mah_to"?
Posted by: Dom | October 24, 2005 at 02:14 PM
"wriggle" is faster.
Posted by: Mick H | October 24, 2005 at 02:53 PM
"Wriggle" involves rolling AND rocking.
Posted by: dearieme | October 25, 2005 at 02:41 AM