Inappropriate
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- We hear a lot about conversations or stories being 'inappropriate', don't we?
- The implication is that inappropriateness is akin to unpleasantness
- There is an Ad agency cliche: "we bring the sizzle to your sausage"
- Serious question - can you actually have the sizzle without the sausage?
- The Victorians loved this kind of metaphysical conundrum.
- Remember Alice's Cheshire Cat that disappeared leaving only a smile.
- Well you can't say that today. It's not politically correct.
- Remember Greg Wallace, the TV celebrity chef from Peckham?
- He tried to made an oblique reference to it.
- He announced to female work colleagues that what he was NOT wearing was boxer shorts.
- The sausage without the sizzle.
- The cat lost its smile.
- Aren't boxer shorts decent enough?
- He didn't say he was wearing a G-string or a jock strap.
- If I said that, beneath my cassock, I was NOT wearing a posing pouch my congregation would be shocked.
- Boxer shorts are wholesome. Jock straps are sordid and unsavoury.
- Sadly, Greg is no longer allowed to do TV food programmes.
- Fortunately it gave him a marvellous business idea.
- He set up a chain of bakery shops called ‘Greg’s’.
- The sizzle without the sausage.
- ‘the sausage without the meat’.
- What is it about the current obsession with cute pets?
- It's probably harmless, but little dogs in handbags!!?!
- Sometimes it verges on idolatry.
- They worshipped cats in ancient Egyptian and look what happened.
- Church of England numbers are going down
- Cat pics are becoming an epidemic.
- I even overheard some rap song lyrics:
- “Her pussy was a work of art”
- I am not a great royalist but found myself thinking of King Charles the other day.
- I was day-dreaming.
- Curled up in a foetal position with my trousers around my ankles...
- ...and undergoing a rear-entry finger penetration.
- By a rather attractive young lady doctor
- Perfectly appropriate.
- ...and not entirely unpleasant, either.
- Some of you chaps may also have endured a prostate inspection.
- A few weeks later I was in a hospital bed surrounded by nurses.
- They were sending a tiny camera team in through my front bottom, as it were.
- Yes - appropriate but UNpleasant.
- There was a large screen above my bed and I could see where the camera was going...
- The whole process reminded me of that famous children's author Roald Dahl.
- He wrote a book called...what was it?
- No, not 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
- 'James and the Giant Peach'
- A hand gesture may be inappropriate but welcome
- Or appropriate but unwelcome.
- Have you ever had food go down the wrong way and not known whether to swallow or to gag?
- According to Scientists, Mother Nature pre-disposes the body to one or the other
- Yes, the gaggers and the swallowers.
- In a restaurant the other day and I saw young lady gagging on a large peanut
- This can be a life or death moment
- Emergency procedures - what would you do?
- A Heimlich Manoevre may be appropriate but unwelcome if the lady has a large bosom
- Does performing an action from behind reduce the embarrassment?
- It's easier for gentlemen.
- You can go in from the front with what Hollywood calls the 'Kevin Spacey Manoevre'