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British humor

😀   Refined masters of double and triple entendre.

"I'm a senna pod tea addict, and now I'm on the run!"

meaning:

1. From the police
2. Searching for a toilet
3. ( must I explain ... ? )

From the Goon Show, Confessions of a Secret Sennapod Drinker


OR


"Lady Constance de Coverlet"

1. Harmless name
2. Lady, constantly uncovering herself
3. Lady Constance of the Bedsheets


With the famous line:

Strange Man:

"I must warn you, I have no scruples!"


Lady Constance de Coverlet:

"Oh, you poor man, you!"


(Both characters played by a man, of course...)


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