Thursday 8 February 2007

Cleanliness is next to Dogliness


It was the age of Senator Joseph McCarthy, of good, clean American fun, and what better way of safeguarding the nation's moral integrity than a spot of same-sex dog-washing?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Washing the dog", eh? How euphemistic, but I somehow don't think Fraulein von B-H would appreciate it at all were I to suggest that the "old Basset needs a good seeing to" and gestured suggestively towards ...

No. She wouldn't like that one bit.

Anyone care to raise the tone?

Alexis, Baron von Harlot said...

No, I would most seriously caution against further references to "the old Basset". The connotations (of slobber, droopy ears, etc) are altogether off-putting.

And now that's quite enough of this. We were discussing canine hygiene. In the 1950s.

lucy tartan said...

I hadn't realised dogs got quite so dirty in the fifties.

Alexis, Baron von Harlot said...

You bet they did. Hence the Elvis Presley number, "I aint nothing but a hound dog".

Anonymous said...

And who could forget "A boy named Roy and his beau named Joe"? I loved that one.