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** Besides [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Bruce Willis]] is the only other person to really use the phrase very often, anyway. "[[Yippee Ki-Yay!|Yippee Ki-Yay,]] [[Die Hard|Motherfucker!"]]
* One gag used in cartoons was when someone ingested the multi-use substance [[wikipedia:Alum|alum]], their lips would tighten to a pucker, their head would shrink, or their voice would increase in pitch (the latter two occurring in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6CPiMC8n4 "Long-Haired Hare"]). (The whole puckered mouth/shrunken head thing is because alum is an astringent and a preservative used in pickling, among many other uses.)
* Because of advances in refrigeration, milkmen are pretty much obsolete in America, withand have declined [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/milk-floats-ride-to-the-rescue-of-locked-down-british-households resultfrom that89% of the market (in 1980) to 2.8% (in 2015)] in the UK. While a few grocery delivery services (such as Instacart) still exist, [[Cheating with the Milkman]] has pretty much diedgone asthe away tropeof andthe [[Party Line Telephone]] into oblivion. isIt's only likely to pop up in a work set in the 1950s, (theor some other era inwhere whicheverything itfrom ice to coal was aroutinely presentdelivered trope)to the house in the daytime. InterestinglyThe enoughtrope breaker? If seemingly every household has two cars these days, it's hascheaper just to drive to the supermarket to restock the fridge. To some degree the milkman jokes have a replacement trope in [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]], which reflects a more recent norm for food delivery.
** The main reason milkmen were the subjects of these jokes were their regular presence within a house, if only briefly. They would visit their customers daily or nearly so, giving them the opportunity to get familiar with the female residents. The subject of such jokes can just as well be any other male regularly visiting a certain residence.
** Commonly, the gardener has been used as a replacement.
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