Double entendre

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My wife once asked me for a definition of a double entendre. So I gave her one. This is also a place to confess a childish admiration for the Viz character Finnbar Saunders and his double entendres.

See also

• A. J. N. Calder, master of the unwitting smutticism.
• Non-sequitur