When I was in eighth grade, I was still in Catholic school. And we still had recess (because the whole school did), including after lunch. Everyone would go outside for about ten minutes, and you could play basketball if you wanted to. Then, for some reason, before we went back in we’d all face the flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance. (Even though we said it every morning)
Well, apparently a few people had been absent-mindedly dribbling the basketballs during the Pledge.
So one day when we get the principal (a nun) doing her daily announcements, she mentions this, and says, “You’re not supposed to be playing with your balls during the Pledge of Allegiance.” (I swear by the Holy Virgin Mother, I’m not kidding. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a NUN say something like that and not realize the meaning)
Naturally the entire class starts howling. (Along with every other class that understood the endentre) My teacher’s head went down on her desk and her shoulders were shaking. A girl on my bus said she was in the computer lab and the teacher was laughing so hard she was choking.
Years ago I was with a bunch of other people at a pizza parlor. It was getting late and a female employee was going around telling everybody that the salad bar was closing. She was going around saying, “Last call for the salad bar.” So I said “Hey, it’s the last call girl.”
She gave me a what did you just say? look and it took me a second to realize what I just said. After explaining myself she gave me a hard time about it, but she knew I didn’t mean it like that.
I actually know people who use that as a flirting technique. The idea is that you pretend to be all innocent, but you get them thinking in that way.
Then again, it’s also used by that NLP guy–he will always try to work “b’low me” or “ha-penis” in to the conversation. Yeah.