It sounds like a line straight out of "Are You Being Served", a British comedy tv show.
The association’s lawyer, in a letter dated Tuesday, relayed its decision that no steps would be taken against Lebow if he offered an "unequivocal apology" to Simona Sharoni, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Merrimack College who filed a complaint about the incident.
If he does not apologize, the letter said, the association will issue a formal, private letter of reprimand.
It sounds like a line straight out of "Are You Being Served", a British comedy tv show.
These people will rule us someday..?
If they allow us to live.
“where saying “ladies’ lingerie” in an elevator is a well-known gag line”
I’m not familiar with that.
Where’s the gag from?
I used to make that joke many times, on elevators. That was in a land far away, at a time that will never come back. People actually laughed or smiled. No one pretended to be offended. Men were not assumed to be predators.
Good-natured attempts at humor were taken as such. People were not vilified, roasted, impaled or gored for it. No international “firestorms”. No one was fired.
Those days will not be returning. There is no going back. Insanity goes one way only.
Perhaps the Prof should have asked for the manly sport togs.
Mentioning ladies lingerie is not pushing the envelope. Asking if it comes in children’s sizes is.
There's the problem right there.
[ “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?
Fixed it
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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.
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.
Maybe he was wanting to buy a nightgown for his wife.
One of the big gifts that the Left grants to us is this tendency on their part to eat their own. One day you’re part of the PC mob, attacking others for this or that violation, and the next day, you’re the victim. There’s only one person on Earth who is immune, but nobody knows who it is. They would have to be on the “oppressed” side of every possible schism imaginable.
RUN!!!
and don't look back. (DANG!)
Also, how will I be able to tell someone that I'm going to Victoria's Secret to buy something for the old lady?
Hmmmm... Guess I’d better change my ways. I have frequently used that phrase. When bringing a patient into the hospital from the ambulance, the elevator (it only goes half a floor) has a button marked M (for main). I would often press the button and say, “Mezzanine, ladies lingerie” and would often get a smile from the patient.
Our VP Pence has this covered. If a lady is in an elevator alone, he doesn’t enter. If he’s alone in an elevator and a lady enters, he immediately leaves before the doors close.
Who under 50 even remembers that there used to be people who worked as elevator operators?
Let alone that they would announce what was sold on each floor in a department store?