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Three 1940s women posing for a dirty joke (lemmy.world)
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[–] 29 points 5 months ago (5 children)

That's pretty funny. Wonder how old that joke is?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    My guess is that it probably doesn't predate automobiles.

    I've never seen that particular phrase used in other legitimate situations.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Mopped floors have probably been around longer than cars

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    • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    Heh, classic

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Dang those girls are probably all great grandmas by now, if they're even still alive.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    Let's be generous and assume the photo was taken in 1949. Again being generous, let's say those are 18 year olds. That means they were born in 1931 and are currently 95 years old.

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    • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Your grandmother was a slut.

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    • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    In modern times they would have posed creatively with a Ronald McDonald statue.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

    I'm kind of sceptical that the term "wet" to refer to a woman being sexually arroused was common vernacular in the 40s. You couldn't say the word "pregnant" on TV at the time.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    WTF, every generation thinks they invented sex. You think women didn't notice that they got wet when they got horny? How do you think you got here? Your great grandparents got horned up and banged like monkeys, and spawned your parents who banged like monkeys to make you, but you're the one who's got it all figured out.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    There have always been sexual euphemisms. Media used to be heavily censored, sure, but privately, people were just as dirty as ever.

    My great grandpa had a collection of Tijuana Bibles from his time in the Navy in WWII. The horniest comics I've ever seen and chock full of innuendo. My mom found them after he died, along with some homemade smut. I choose not to look at that.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago*

    about 250 years older than that!

    1698–1700 [UK] N. Ward London Spy VII: Nor one whore that could have the impudence to ask above Six-pence Wet and Six-pence Dry, for an hour of her Cursed Company.

    1832 [UK] Satirist (London) 9 Sept.: [T]he saying has become common, when speaking of what they consider a low girl, ‘Oh! the creature’s wet: she goes to the Piccadilly Saloon’.

    1888–94 [UK] ‘Walter’ My Secret Life: Was it not lovely, Charlotte, is not your thing wet?

    1920s [US] ‘All Night Long’ in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing: We drank one or two as other folks do, / The night was wet, but she got wetter.

    1941 [US] in G. Legman Limerick: Her twat would get wet / And would wiggle and fret, / And her cunt-lips would curl and unfurl.

    1949 [US] H. Miller Sexus: She was wet as a goose now.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The difference between what was said on TV and what was said in meatspace was much greater back then.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Yes, the youth don't understand that as you go further back in time the more chaste the media gets, the more purile and violent the people of the time actually were. You may get hit a couple of times in the pit at your local deathgrind show, but you could have easily gotten stabbed at a Beach Boys concert.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Right one has a great fupa 👌

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