# London brothel menu from 1912
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 3, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939 "2013-03-03T21:25:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/41 "2013-03-05T06:43:24Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> One reason why I’m pretty sure that it’s fake is that before about 1960 it was generally believed illegal to print the word “fuck”. Even a printer for a brothel would have insisted that they use some other word so that the printer would not be prosecuted. This legal doctrine was ended with the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_ in 1960, and the unsuccessful prosecution of the publishers (Penguin Books).
You have Victorian-era works that had more that their share of the f-word, but I suppose they were printed after 1960.
May favorite was “My Secret Life.”
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### Author:  [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/42 "2013-03-05T07:18:46Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Are you fingering what I’m fingering, Pinkey?
_clap_clap\*
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/43 "2013-03-05T08:58:06Z")
Wouldn’t “going down” upon a person be called a Titanic?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/44 "2013-03-05T12:08:00Z")
> [@Zebra](#):
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> Wouldn’t “going down” upon a person be called a Titanic?
No, it was “too soon”.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/45 "2013-03-05T13:06:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> What were the prices for Happy Hour, and did they have a “Two-fer Tuesday” special?
Brothels tend to go with “Taco Tuesday”.
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/46 "2013-03-05T14:03:00Z")
I’ll just have the buffet.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/47 "2013-03-05T14:43:07Z")
> [@Lumpy](#):
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> I’ll just have the buffet.
Keep in mind, this is all pre-sneezeguard!
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/48 "2013-03-05T14:58:58Z")
That’s not mucus.
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### Author:  [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-brothel-menu-from-1912/651939/49 "2013-03-06T08:06:13Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> The “no discount for cash” line is another anachronism. A hundred years ago, cash would have been pretty much the only means of payment used.
I see a lot of corner shops and snack and soda type places with “absolutely NO credit!” signs and they don’t mean cards of course but that they don’t do tabs.
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