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The word iamb comes from Iambe, a Greek minor goddess of verse, especially scurrilous, ribald humour.
") Fiona Bruce and Charlotte Green ( of Radio 4 ) are portrayed as seductive and saucy ; Green confesses to a " ribald " sense of humour.

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To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.
Much of its appeal in this era was due to the ribald, suggestive themes featured by many troupes ; this appeal was further augmented by the fact that the performers were often also available for prostitution.
News of this event was received in Paris with a great show of rejoicing and the Pope's effigy was publicly burned in the gardens of the Palais Royal to the accompaniment of ribald jokes and songs.
Many of Porter's ribald lyrics were altered to conform to the guidelines of the Motion Picture Production Code, and " Blow Gabriel Blow " was eliminated completely, replaced by a song Merman was forced to perform in a headdress made of peacock feathers while surrounded by dancers dressed as Chinese slave girls.
Wynonie Harris ( August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969 ), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics.
In 1892 " The Scottish Students Song Book " ( edited by John Stuart Blackie ) was published, containing 200 ribald songs.
In the nineteenth century the Coal Hole Tavern, under the management of Renton Nicholson, was notable for song-and-supper evenings, tableaux vivants of scantily clad women in poses plastiques, and a ribald " Judge and Jury " show.
Yet while the fire was regarded by many as a national tragedy, it was also the occasion for ribald songs and jokes.
Outside of the monasteries, monks were considered to have a particular predilection for male prostitutes, which was the subject of much ribald humor.
It was received however with much ribald laughter and antagonism.
" There was much noise, calls for order and the singing of a ribald chorus of ' On Rosenwater's doorstep, down Leytonstone way ' to the tune of Mother Kelly.
Due to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt less restricted by middle-class social mores than their contemporaries in vaudeville.
It should not pass without mention that the reason a humble women's tonic was the subject of such and sundry ribald drinking ballads and an increasing success in the twenties and early thirties was its availability, as a 40-proof patent eye-opener, during Prohibition.
The basic conceit of the sketch was that the small New South Wales south coast town of Ulladulla was heavily populated by famous Australian sporting and show business identities, that many of these celebrities owned businesses in the area or worked in various official capacities in the town, and that all were regularly involved in hilarious and often ribald misadventures.
*" train came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running though the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing ground shudder watching it till it was gone.
The charges centred on two items in the early issues of Oz -- one was Sharp's ribald poem " The Word Flashed Around The Arms ", which satirised the contemporary habit of youths gatecrashing parties ; the other offending item was the famous photo ( used on the cover of Oz # 6 ) which depicted Neville and two friends pretending to urinate into a Tom Bass sculptural wall fountain, set into the wall of the new P & O office in Sydney, which had recently been opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
One was Martin Sharp's ribald satirical poem about youths gatecrashing a party, entitled " The Word Flashed Around The Arms "; the other was the now famous Oz # 6 cover photograph ( pictured at right ), which depicted Neville and others pretending to urinate into a wall fountain created by sculptor Tom Bass, which was mounted in the street facade of the Sydney offices of the P & O shipping line and which had recently been unveiled by Prime Minister Menzies.

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This tradition had been celebrated annually on Western Weekend beginning in 2006, and included children's activities, Country Western Bands, a block party with Paniolo barbecue, a rodeo, and the ribald Saloon Girl Contest.
In the capital Helsinki and its surrounding region, fixtures include the capping ( on 30 April at 6 pm ) of the Havis Amanda, a nude female statue in Helsinki, and the biennially alternating publications of ribald matter called Äpy and Julkku, by engineering students of Aalto University.
They consisted of three parts: first, songs and ribald comic sketches by low comedians ; second, assorted olios and male acts, such as acrobats, magicians and solo singers ; and third, chorus numbers and sometimes a burlesque in the English style on politics or a current play.
* " Sit on my Face " – A ribald parody of Gracie Fields ' " Sing as We Go " from Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album, performed by Cleese, Chapman, Gilliam and Jones in waiter outfits, sans trousers or underwear.
" ( given in response to a seemingly innocent remark made by her interlocutor, but perceived by her as ribald double entendre ), preceded a hefty shove on the shoulder of the interlocutor, and a prompt about-turn walk-off with a leg trip.
Chávez also utilized his charisma and flamboyant public speaking style — noted for its abundance of colloquialisms and ribald manner — on the campaign trail to help win the trust and favor of a primarily poor and working class following.
There were many 19th century examples of attacks on Enlightenment concepts, parody, and playfulness in literature, including Lord Byron's satire, especially Don Juan ; Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Alfred Jarry's ribald Ubu parodies and his invention of ' Pataphysics ; Lewis Carroll's playful experiments with signification ; the work of Isidore Ducasse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde.
Aretino prospered, living from hand to mouth as a hanger-on in the literate circle of his patron, sharpening his satirical talents on the gossip of politics and the Papal Curia, and turning the coarse Roman pasquinade into a rapier weapon of satire, until his sixteen ribald Sonetti Lussuriosi ( Lust Sonnets ) written to accompany Giulio Romano's exquisitely beautiful but utterly pornographic series of drawings engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi under the title I Modi finally caused such outrage that he had to temporarily flee Rome.
After the earlier, more ribald forms of kabuki had been outlawed in the mid-17th century, the government permitted the establishment of the new yarō-kabuki ( men's kabuki ) only on the grounds that it refrain from the previous kabuki forms ' lewdness and instead model itself after kyōgen.
But one of the names is " bug juice " – a term that appears on the surface to just as ribald as any other.
A slightly ribald anecdote about a panicked Creole bride on her wedding night is told in The River Road and is mentioned in Once on Esplanade, Madame Castel's Lodger, The Chess Players and others.
In 1999 Wheatley published his autobiography Paper Paradise which was based in part on a ribald memoir he had begun during his stint in The Masters, entitled " Who The Hell Is Judy In Sydney?

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The ornate and precious rhyta of the great civilizations of earlier times are grandiose rather than ribald, which gives the democratic vase paintings an extra satirical dimension.

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His work is marked chiefly by an extraordinarily wide and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor.
In 1607, a group of Members of Parliament had written a ribald poem entitled The Parliament Fart, as a symbolic protest against the conservatism of the House of Lords and the king, James I.
Underground Comix were ribald, intensely satirical, and seemed to pursue weirdness for the sake of weirdness.
There are nude figures, some of corpses from battle, others of a ribald nature.
: At once elegant and ribald, sophisticated and earthy, urbane and bemused, frivolous yet profound.
But it is also a flashback within a flashback, because the accounts of the witnesses are being retold by a woodcutter and a priest to a ribald commoner as they wait out a rainstorm in a ruined gatehouse.
* July 2 – CBS revives Match Game with more ribald questions.
There is also a bounty of inside-New Zealand information and tantalizing tidbits of Māori culture such as the ribald provenance of the name of Urewera National Park.
In Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) he is an established novelist and must deal with the fall-out from his ribald comedic novel Carnovsky.
Sex is presented in ribald material more for the purpose of poking fun at the foibles and weaknesses that manifest themselves in human sexuality, rather than to present sexual stimulation either excitingly or artistically.
Works like Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Menaechmi by Plautus, Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and The Golden Ass of Apuleius are ribald classics from ancient Europe.
Cuban Bufo theatre is an example: a form of comedy, ribald and satirical, with stock figures imitating types that might be found anywhere in the country.
The soldiers had a repertoire of their own, largely consisting of new, often ribald, lyrics to older tunes.
Berardinelli gave the film three out of four stars, calling it " about 1 / 3 Shakespeare, 1 / 3 song-and-dance, and 1 / 3 ribald slapstick " and describing the balance as " awkward, but the overall result is strangely appealing.

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