{"id":2855,"date":"2009-05-10T18:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2009-05-10T19:40:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T18:40:39","slug":"french-wench-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"French Wench Fancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FrenchThere are some words and phrases that make humour and other kinds of wordplay difficult if not impossible to translate to other languages. It’s a simple matter of how language develops in different geographies and within different cultures.<\/p>\n

One phrase which will probably not translate outside of English is “French Fancy”. It was often used as I recall by Les Dawson, legendary British comedian as an inference that someone was having extra-marital relations as in “having a French Fancy”. Quite tame but subversive nonetheless.<\/p>\n

This has meant that since childhood I have always had a problem with that particular confectionary. Not because they are horribly sweet and prone to making your teeth rot if you so much as look at them but because I always get an image in my head not unlike the inset picture whenever anyone offers me one.<\/p>\n

Then of course there was the line from a later comedy show (the Fast Show I think) who lampooned Dick Emery’s buck-toothed vicar. A WI member uttered a line to the effect of “vicar can I press you to a cream slice?”<\/p>\n

Patisserie porn. Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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