Unintended

Heard in a tv commercial for Scratch-Aide: Let’s face it: if you’ve got wood, you’ve got scratches. Unintendedly, with an ambiguity in got wood: the literal ‘have wood’ and the idiomatic ‘have an erection’ (of the penis), ‘have a woody / boner / hard-on’. On the mass noun wood ‘erection’, see some brief discussion in … Continue reading Unintended