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** Elsewhere in the same book, "Van Helsing rushed into the room, ejaculating furiously".
* Also in ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'': "In addition, Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life." and "his thirst for gaiety grew stronger" and "there were gay hours in the cheerful room".
* ''[[The Onion]]: Our Dumb Century'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219090337/http://www.theonion.com/content/history/april_22_1906 an entire page] of this describing the 1906 San Francisco fire: "EARTH-QUAKE MARKS LEAST GAY DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY -- 'Queen city on the Pacific' lies in ruins. Garment District still flaming."
* [[Ray Bradbury]] is not immune to this, either. In the short horror story "The Skeleton", a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]] is described as being like "a hot-water douche". As in, a cleansing flood of liquid rushing into an orifice. Okay, [[That Came Out Wrong]].
** It helps if you remember that "douche" simply means "shower" in French, which used to be a common language for English speakers to borrow from. (The Spanish cognate, by the way, is ''ducha''.) Hey, at least Bradbury didn't write "golden douche."
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