Does Safire still write On language? (In my last coupla skimmings of the Sunday Magazine, I havn’t seen it; thus, why I ask.) If he does, though, I see single entendre as a worthy column theme. Prolly he’d insist on calling a dirtpipe milkshake by the more formal dirtpipe milk-shake, at least, if not by the elevated phrasing reverse seminal constitutional.

inneresting fact: in lexisnexis’ index of world major publications, there are only 10 xtube references; the first came in ben widdicombe’s column in the daily news in april 2006.