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?
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"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, 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.
5 comments:
"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?
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.
I hadn't realised dogs got quite so dirty in the fifties.
You bet they did. Hence the Elvis Presley number, "I aint nothing but a hound dog".
And who could forget "A boy named Roy and his beau named Joe"? I loved that one.
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