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On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 2:26:46 AM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds
discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not
pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine
up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt"

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The double entendre is always funny no matter how old it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre#Etymology
Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's
The Canterbury Tales (14th century), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is
laden with double entendres. The most famous of these may be her use of the
word "queynte" to describe both domestic duties (from the homonym "quaint")
and genitalia ("queynte" being a root of the modern English word ****.)
After the Norman conquest snobbery demanded French words were permitted but
Anglo-Saxon words meaning the same thing were low-life. Don't tell Snell,
though.