Innocent phrases that sound dirty

A friend of mine in high school got in trouble for trying to use this:
“Don’t pull on that…you don’t know what it’s attached to.”
for his yearbook quote. For goodness sake, it’s about brain surgery. School administrators have such dirty minds :stuck_out_tongue: .

Then there’s always “Bowling a maiden over”…
(waits to see if any other American dopers will get that one.)

One of the English (language, not lit) textbooks I teach from has a dialogue where a man explains to a florist why he’s buying so many roses. It’s his anniversary, and his wife is still mad at him about what he did the previous year.

“I gave her a hammer.”

Well, my mind is in the gutter. “Gave her a hammer” sounds too much like wild mad sex on the dining room table :smiley:

Mounting a hard drive…

Ballcock assembly

All right - I’m the first:

“Need some wood?”

Highlight of last night’s debate.

Aunt Millie’s Buns®

If something is fairly zesty, my husband will say that “It’s got a big of wang to it.”

Some of the bills we get at work are for nipples and clamps.

Let’s not forget the planet Uranus
That is always good for a joke and smile.

I’ve always thought that one was pretty dirty, but people throw it around so casually. I have a lot of trouble saying it with a straight face, myself.

“I spent the summer beating off ex-boyfriends.”

Uttered by someone at the school newspaper.

If we really want innocent phrases that sound dirty, how about: “While we were at drama camp, my sister and I became thespians together.”:smiley:

And my personal favorite, from a baby-care book, explaining that both mother and child will appreciate when rectal thermometers are coated with vaseline or KY Jelly before use: “Once well-lubricated, insertion will be much more comfortable for both parties.” :eek:

As I said to one of my fellow teachers, “This guy had better be using that as some sort of filthy slang, otherwise…well, what the hell kind of an anniversary gift is a hammer?”

When I ran heavy equipment we frequently “mucked out holes in the road.”

I do a lot of reading for our quiz bowl team. “Titular” comes up a lot. I giggle.

(Once, there was a question about a particularly well-endowed woman. There was an editor’s note stating that he really did mean “titular”. I giggled.)

Just don’t offer a British girl a “fanny pack”. (:eek: again!)

I broke my toe this week and went today to get those socks that have separate toes so I can wear flip flops for a few days. Putting them on I told my daughter –

“Oh heck, I put two piggies in the same hole.”

If anyone’s ever played the boardgame Settlers of Catan, you’ll know that its a game about trading resources.

After a successful trade, some people have been known to happily say, “I got wood for sheep!”
:smiley:

In highschool, one of my friends was having fun turning any normal, innocent phrase into something sexual. I was trying to stump her. As I explained to another friend: "I’ve been trying to think of a phrase that can’t be turned dirty. I’ve been at it all day!"

I still haven’t lived that one down.

I had a roomie who bought a new scratching post for his cat. Weeks later, he was talking about a female coworker and identified her with the phrase, “She’s the one I gave the ol’ scratchin’ post.”

But I do love, “…She had the most beautiful face I’ve ever come across.”