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A song or poem which includes ribaldry for purposes of bonding and general letting-off-steam. May also be called a Barrack-room Ballad, a Rugby Song or a Hash Hymn. The level of ribaldry may range from mere [[Double Entendre]] to the kind of explicit lyrics that send [[Moral Guardians]] into conniptions. |
A song or poem which includes ribaldry for purposes of bonding and general letting-off-steam. May also be called a Barrack-room Ballad, a Rugby Song or a Hash Hymn. The level of ribaldry may range from mere [[Double Entendre]] to the kind of explicit lyrics that send [[Moral Guardians]] into conniptions. |
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Such songs are sometimes used as a nod towards [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], a character will be singing a well-known bawdy song and cut off a [[Last Second Word Swap|split-second]] [[Orphaned Punchline|before actually singing anything obscene]]. Including snatches of bawdy songs in a scene indicates that characters are becoming relaxed and uninhibited (at the very least). If the song happens to be something as explicit as "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus The Good Ship Venus]" or " |
Such songs are sometimes used as a nod towards [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], a character will be singing a well-known bawdy song and cut off a [[Last Second Word Swap|split-second]] [[Orphaned Punchline|before actually singing anything obscene]]. Including snatches of bawdy songs in a scene indicates that characters are becoming relaxed and uninhibited (at the very least). If the song happens to be something as explicit as "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus The Good Ship Venus]" or "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_Bill_%28song%29 Barnacle Bill the Sailor]," they are probably way past just "relaxed". |
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An unseen incident of the singing of a bawdy song may be used to indicate that someone was drunk and disorderly or otherwise "out of order", especially if children, nuns or [[The Vicar]] happened to be present. Allusion to the vicar knowing such a song is a deliberate example of incongruity. Rick the Vic from ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' probably knows them all. |
An unseen incident of the singing of a bawdy song may be used to indicate that someone was drunk and disorderly or otherwise "out of order", especially if children, nuns or [[The Vicar]] happened to be present. Allusion to the vicar knowing such a song is a deliberate example of incongruity. Rick the Vic from ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' probably knows them all. |
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