# Overheard Snippets, or, "They don't manufacture vaginal weights AT ALL?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-snippets-or-they-dont-manufacture-vaginal-weights-at-all/41333 "2000-11-15T17:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-snippets-or-they-dont-manufacture-vaginal-weights-at-all/41333/21 "2000-11-17T11:37:13Z")
The British playwrite Alan Bennet has a collection of these in one of his books of memoirs. The best is one he claims to have overheard on a bus in Yorkshire: “Of course, it’s not any use to him now. Well, not as a leg, anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-snippets-or-they-dont-manufacture-vaginal-weights-at-all/41333/22 "2000-11-17T11:38:26Z")
play **wright** ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-snippets-or-they-dont-manufacture-vaginal-weights-at-all/41333/23 "2000-11-17T12:02:53Z")
At work yesterday I heard the following just on the other side of ye olde cubicle wall: “Do you want me to turn my head while you put it in?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-snippets-or-they-dont-manufacture-vaginal-weights-at-all/41333.md?page=1)