Have a Gay Old Time/Web Original
Examples of Have a Gay Old Time in Web Original works include:
- Don't forget The Cheese Family:
"It's such a lovely day today. Let's go to the Zoo!" exclaimed a vaguely aroused Carren. |
- This site gives a list of common mistranslations used by women on Russian dating agencies, often caused by using outdated dictionaries for translation—among them are "gay" (used in the old sense), "intercourse" (not what you think) and "intercourse agency" (a dating agency).
- While maybe it doesn't quite fit this trope, "Romantic evenings with candles" also brings certain images to mind.
- Invisible Dick The linked page is full of these.
- Looking up 'spunk' at the Urban Dictionary will net you references to Australian slang for a really hot guy (supposedly a contraction of "sexy punk"), and American slang for marijuana. It's even more fun to look it up on dictionary.com — not only does the word "punk" appear again (in an even more obscure meaning involving wood — no, not that kind of wood, the kind you light fireworks with!) -- but it brings up ads for sperm banks. Kinda puts a whole new spin on this classic exchange between nervous new employee Mary and her irascible boss, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show (circa 1970):
Lou: You've got spunk... |
- An aversion of this was mentioned in Zero Punctuation: Everyone in Britain stops snickering at the name "Spotted Dick" by the time they turn twelve.
- The Happy Spacemen, by rathergoodstuff.
- Invoked by the SCP Foundation with the gayest man alive.
- In Cracked.com's The 5 Most Absurd Superhero Names of All-Time, Maxwell Yezpitelok mentions the World War II-era comic book examples of The Gay Ghost as well as "hav[ing] never felt so queer" in Flick Falcon.