musicians enough. Ronnie asked the prince what made him think that. ‘Because they’re all smoking the same cigarette,’ replied Charles.
Daily Mail
CHAPTER 7
RUDE BRITANNIA
‘I’ve lost my phone number. Can I have yours?’
The Icelandic Phallological Museum – believed to be the only museum of penises – has 245 examples from animals such as hamsters, horses and whales. It is looking for a human specimen, and diarist Jon Henley said it sounded like a eunuch opportunity.
Guardian
Changing Times:
1950 – Average age for a woman to lose virginity is 21. For men it is 20.
1960 – Average age for women to lose virginity is down to 19. For men it is 18.
2000 – Average person loses virginity at 16. One in five men and one in six women in the 16–24 age range have had more than ten partners.
Guardian
The Proceedings of the Royal Society journal says men take the same pleasure out of looking at an attractive female as they do from having a curry.
Daily Telegraph
A couple mounted the stairs to the roof of a London theatre and then mounted each other – not knowing they were in full view of some Soho offices. Workers there filmed the encounter and shared it with the world on YouTube. Hundreds of thousands tuned in to the al fresco romp.
Independent on Sunday
A Durex survey revealed that Britons have sex an average 92 times a year. Greeks score 164, Brazilians 145, Russians and Poles 143.
The survey also said that most Britons are unhappy with their sex lives, but not as unhappy as the Japanese, who scored only 48 times a year.
Sun
Sir Ian McKellen got his kit off when playing King Lear and an anonymous theatregoer emailed Jon Henley’s diary: ‘Sir Ian is an actor with a large part.’
Guardian
Dan Jones, a painter and writer with a deep interest in the folklore of the playground, has gathered some 400 songs, mainly from schools in his own borough of Tower Hamlets in London’s East End. One of them has the catchy lyric:
Ooh, ah, I lost my bra
I left my knickers in my boyfriend’s car.
Guardian
Among chat up lines paraded in the Independent on Sunday :
Excuse me, I’ve lost my phone number. Can I have yours?
Do you believe in love at first sight or am I going to have to walk past you again?
I was just wondering if you had any space in your handbag for my Ferrari keys.
Your eyes are blue like the ocean and baby I’m lost at sea. (This one got the response: ‘You must be pissed, luv. My eyes are brown’.)
Independent on Sunday
A Dutchman was caught having sex with a sheep – but the case was thrown out of court because under Dutch law bestiality is not a crime unless it can be proved that the animal did not want to have sex.
Independent on Sunday
Ursula Andress’s emergence from the Caribbean in the 1962 James Bond film Dr No has been voted the best bikini scene ever. It was followed by a Morecambe and Wise skit which had a half-naked goddess emerging from the ocean inquiring seductively if there was anything they had been missing.
One of the funny men replied: ‘You haven’t got a chip pan?’
Daily Mail
The late George Melly, musician and author, was also an angler and tells the story of a Scotsman who was a virgin: ‘I’ve never been with a woman, but from what I hear it’s not unlike landing a salmon’.
The Times
A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register for pleasuring himself with a bicycle. The Observer reported that the BBC News website used a photograph of a bicycle, but ‘one can only trust it is not the actual bicycle, as it is an offence to show victims of sex crimes.’
Observer
‘I don’t know if it is the same with you, Harold, but I find if I don’t have sex at least once every 24 hours, I get these goddamn headaches.’ The Sunday Times records this ‘hitherto unreported comment by President Kennedy to a speechless Harold Macmillan’.
Sunday Times
The Kama Sutra was first published in English in 1883, though it remained illegal until 1963. It
Daily Mail
CHAPTER 7
RUDE BRITANNIA
‘I’ve lost my phone number. Can I have yours?’
The Icelandic Phallological Museum – believed to be the only museum of penises – has 245 examples from animals such as hamsters, horses and whales. It is looking for a human specimen, and diarist Jon Henley said it sounded like a eunuch opportunity.
Guardian
Changing Times:
1950 – Average age for a woman to lose virginity is 21. For men it is 20.
1960 – Average age for women to lose virginity is down to 19. For men it is 18.
2000 – Average person loses virginity at 16. One in five men and one in six women in the 16–24 age range have had more than ten partners.
Guardian
The Proceedings of the Royal Society journal says men take the same pleasure out of looking at an attractive female as they do from having a curry.
Daily Telegraph
A couple mounted the stairs to the roof of a London theatre and then mounted each other – not knowing they were in full view of some Soho offices. Workers there filmed the encounter and shared it with the world on YouTube. Hundreds of thousands tuned in to the al fresco romp.
Independent on Sunday
A Durex survey revealed that Britons have sex an average 92 times a year. Greeks score 164, Brazilians 145, Russians and Poles 143.
The survey also said that most Britons are unhappy with their sex lives, but not as unhappy as the Japanese, who scored only 48 times a year.
Sun
Sir Ian McKellen got his kit off when playing King Lear and an anonymous theatregoer emailed Jon Henley’s diary: ‘Sir Ian is an actor with a large part.’
Guardian
Dan Jones, a painter and writer with a deep interest in the folklore of the playground, has gathered some 400 songs, mainly from schools in his own borough of Tower Hamlets in London’s East End. One of them has the catchy lyric:
Ooh, ah, I lost my bra
I left my knickers in my boyfriend’s car.
Guardian
Among chat up lines paraded in the Independent on Sunday :
Excuse me, I’ve lost my phone number. Can I have yours?
Do you believe in love at first sight or am I going to have to walk past you again?
I was just wondering if you had any space in your handbag for my Ferrari keys.
Your eyes are blue like the ocean and baby I’m lost at sea. (This one got the response: ‘You must be pissed, luv. My eyes are brown’.)
Independent on Sunday
A Dutchman was caught having sex with a sheep – but the case was thrown out of court because under Dutch law bestiality is not a crime unless it can be proved that the animal did not want to have sex.
Independent on Sunday
Ursula Andress’s emergence from the Caribbean in the 1962 James Bond film Dr No has been voted the best bikini scene ever. It was followed by a Morecambe and Wise skit which had a half-naked goddess emerging from the ocean inquiring seductively if there was anything they had been missing.
One of the funny men replied: ‘You haven’t got a chip pan?’
Daily Mail
The late George Melly, musician and author, was also an angler and tells the story of a Scotsman who was a virgin: ‘I’ve never been with a woman, but from what I hear it’s not unlike landing a salmon’.
The Times
A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register for pleasuring himself with a bicycle. The Observer reported that the BBC News website used a photograph of a bicycle, but ‘one can only trust it is not the actual bicycle, as it is an offence to show victims of sex crimes.’
Observer
‘I don’t know if it is the same with you, Harold, but I find if I don’t have sex at least once every 24 hours, I get these goddamn headaches.’ The Sunday Times records this ‘hitherto unreported comment by President Kennedy to a speechless Harold Macmillan’.
Sunday Times
The Kama Sutra was first published in English in 1883, though it remained illegal until 1963. It
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