# I have the "key" and you have the, uhm, "lock" it fits....

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945 "2015-09-20T14:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/1 "2015-09-20T14:11:49Z")

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I see \*\*this movie \*\*is on TCM today. The poster for it is a bit … _suggestive_, don’t you think? :eek: 😉

[![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Key_(1958_film)#/media/File:The_Key_FilmPoster.jpeg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Key_(1958_film)#/media/File:The_Key_FilmPoster.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/2 "2015-09-20T14:29:27Z")

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And here I thought you were alluding to Ghostbusters I.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/3 "2015-09-20T15:13:59Z")

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But does she have a brand-new pair of roller skates?

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/4 "2015-09-20T16:58:27Z")

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Oskar Homolka! What a guy!

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**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/5 "2015-09-20T17:14:58Z")

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If your ol’ fella looks like that, you should see a doctor!

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/6 "2015-09-20T20:58:02Z")

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> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> But does she have a brand-new pair of roller skates?

Aw! I love you for that!

Personally, I’m an unreconstructed Freudian, and so, of course, I saw the obvious symbology…but I think the cigar really is just a cigar: the imagery appears to relate to stateroom keys on a luxury liner, and a comedy mix-up. Hilarity ensues. Also a marriage.

It was an era when sex was hinted at but never really acknowledged. Fade to black.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/7 "2015-09-20T21:53:15Z")

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I thought this was going to be about the [Tinto Brass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Key_%281983_film%29) movie.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/8 "2015-09-20T21:56:12Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> Personally, I’m an unreconstructed Freudian, and so, of course, I saw the obvious symbology…but I think the cigar really is just a cigar: the imagery appears to relate to stateroom keys on a luxury liner, and a comedy mix-up.

Aw, c’mon! It’s not just _phallic_, it’s positively _scrotal_! And the keyhole…only one way I can interpret _that_!

Of course, it helps that I have a dirty mind… :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/9 "2015-09-21T05:23:14Z")

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> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> But does she have a brand-new pair of roller skates?

Nah, her dowry is at least a brand-new combine harvester.

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**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-key-and-you-have-the-uhm-lock-it-fits/731945/10 "2015-09-22T17:23:01Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> Nah, her dowry is at least a brand-new combine harvester.

Aw! I love you for that!
