What are some good crude double entendres?
Double entendres are by their nature not usually crude. They are plays on words, hence more subtle. In some cases a risqué or sexual element is central to the understanding of the double entendre. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as ‘A double meaning; a word or phrase having a double sense, especially as used to convey an indelicate meaning’ [emphasis added]. In these cases, the first meaning is presumed to be the more innocent one, while the second meaning is risqué, or at least ironic, requiring the hearer to have some additional knowledge. In “Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997), when Bond is disturbed by the telephone while in bed with a Danish girl, he explains that he’s busy brushing up on his Danish, to which Moneypenny replies, “You always were a cunning linguist, James.” (The joke, of course, is that cunning linguist sounds like cunnilingus.) A popular phrase used to point out a double entendre is “That’s what she said!” For example, when speaking of an uncomfortable chair, “T
