>>>   Double entendre is quite common speech, IMO.
>>
>> Again, how do you even pronounce such a word?
> 
> 'double' as in english, 'entendre' depends on whether you want it to 
> sound like the French word it is or just good enough that everybody else 
> speaking english near you knows what you mean ;-)  'on-TON-druh' might 
> be a rough approximation (apologies to the French).

Mmm, OK.

>>>   If you don't know what MILF is, you haven't been reading the proper
>>> webcomics... ;)
>>
>> Er... no, you know what? I DON'T EVEN WANNA KNOW!
> 
> Or seen the American Pie movies, among others.
> "Call me Stifler's Mom!" ;-)

I've only seen about 20 seconds of American Pie.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"I just stuck a trumpet in your ass. Aren't instruments fun?"

At that point, I decided to stop watching...

>> I guessed that "platonic" would be something to do with regular solids.
> 
> Can be, but definitely not the most common context! If you look at the 
> brief etymologies on Wikipedia you'll be unsurprised to learn that both 
> meanings are named for Plato.

Yeah, I know that *now*. ;-) I know what all the words mean now I've 
looked them up... I'm just saying I had to look 'em up to figure it out.

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