Can everyone at least agree that Professor Lebow was most likely expressing any carnal thoughts about Professor Sharoni?
Posted on 11/17/2018 11:11:52 AM PST by billorites
[ “I discovered that she [Professor Sharoni] had not grown up in either the U.S. or U.K. — where saying “ladies’ lingerie” in an elevator is a well-known gag line — so I explained in the same email the meaning of my remark and how it was in no way directed against women. ]
That’s correct. We did that joke in the elevator way back in the 1980’s. And I’m sure somebody was using it before then. Political-Correctness will be the death of the Western World.
Can everyone at least agree that Professor Lebow was most likely expressing any carnal thoughts about Professor Sharoni?
Should be***MOST LIKELY NOT*** My old eyes ain’t what they used to be.
“i am in my 60’s and have never heard that joke either. ( PS... i’m not offended , but how is that even funny? )”
Thanks.
I’m in my 50’s (not a millennial Cobra).
I’ve never heard that ever.
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Of course the woman and academic society doing this are psycho PC fascists - I’m just addressing this as a well known gag.
Fixed it
[Simona Sharoni, a professor of women’s and gender studies]
Good catch. Nothing more need be said.
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That is such a standard elevator gag from forever. My mother used to say that. It’s not sexist or anything! My mother want trying to get into the panties of anyone riding the elevator, she was making a freaking joke.
The joke is a take on the 1930s elevator operators in NYC department stores who would shout out the different departments as the elevator stopped on that floor. “ladies lingerie” just happens to be the funniest of the departments. Jeez Louise.
Am I allowed to say Jeez Louise, or does it have to be Louis now?
It’s a funny one-liner for normal people because men don’t ordinarily go into the ladies lingerie department. It is just too embarrassing for them. There is a long history of comedy revolving around men being uncomfortable by such things. But I guess the joke is not funny because so many young males now want to dress up as women.
All I’m saying is I never heard this gag.
What is it? Where’s it from?
I think most people wouldn’t get it as a joke.
It's a take on a Bugs Bunny cartoon! Back when, when I was a kid, department stores, like Marshall Fields in Chicago, Macy's and Gimbels, in Manhattan, were 7 or 8 floors. It was a pre-recorded message, in the days before Musak.
The Looney Tunes short "Hare Conditioned", 1945:
Bugs Bunny: Fifth floor! Rubber tires, sugar, bourbon, butter, and other picture postcards!
The Monkey King in Jackie Chan Adventures:
"Third floor: housewares, ladies' undergarments, puppets!"
Marlon Brando, of all people, worked as an elevator operator. He quit because saying "lingerie" out loud embarrassed him.
The offended "Gender Studies" idiot need to be be lobotomized as a brain upgrade. It will improve her intelligence.
Last time I heard about Merrimack was I think the 2016 election. The school had an Ecuadoran grad student going around stealing Trump sign off the lawns of private dwellings.
In a sane world, she would have been deported, and perhaps the school being required to post bond for its future foreign students for a number of years.
In an elevator I have to restrain myself from saying “room for one more honey” lest someone lives who has not seen one of the all time great episodes of twilight zone
“No one would know what you were talking about.”
I knew exactly. There used to be elevator operators who would announce the floor by what was on that floor. Later when elevators were “you push the buttons” people would jokingly say what was on the floor as the door opened. Ladies stuff or ladies unmentionables. Old people get it. Young progressive PCers have no idea...… about a lot of stuff.
I’m pretty sure Jack Benny used the elevator joke at some time in his radio or TV career. Maybe others like the Marx brothers, the Three stooges or Abbott and Costello. It was probably used a lot from vaudeville comedy.
Maybe he was wanting to buy a nightgown for his wife.
That’s kind of why I added the question mark.
Because I believe they believe their in charge.
And if they actually were ..they wouldn’t allow us to live..for any minor infraction from their nutso book of imaginary offenses.
Blame white men for developing comedy.
Yes, I saw that episode, too. I also refrain from saying that because of it. Only because it evokes images from it.
I’ve seen every Bugs Bunny.
Love Bugs Bunny.
I’m getting the picture. It’s an east coast urban thing from a long long time ago.
And there’s no one source for it per se.
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