[lfjokes] Could you be descended from a Shagger?

[Simondo]

Heh... this managed to trip someone's work's bad language mail scanner on 
another joke e-list for use of the word 'arse'.  Apparently 'wanker', 
'fanny' and 'bollocks' are perfectly acceptable....

simondo


From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28120.html

 Could you be descended from a Shagger?
 By Lester Haines
 Posted: 15/11/2002 at 11:16 GMT

It's good to see that the UK's 1901 census site is finally up and running 
after its considerable teething problems. True, it's still in test mode, 
but there is already a wealth of fascinating information to be gleaned 
from this online resource.  

Among the insights visitors can gain is that our Victorian ancestors - 
contrary to popular belief - were not an exclusively dour bunch committed 
to covering provocative sideboard legs and sending small children up 
chimneys. Far from it, as some of the census entries prove.  

Indeed, at a time when giving a false statement to a census officer would 
at best result in transportation to the Antipodes, and at worst have the 
miscreant dancing the Tyburn jig, we can only admire commercial book 
keeper Alexander Penis, of Liverpool, Fanny Clam of - where else - 
Huddersfield, and August Wanker from Hanover in Germany, then resident in 
Clerkenwell. And who can fail to admire the wag from Suffolk who decided 
that Letitia Bollocks should be recorded for posterity?  

For the record, here is further evidence that the spirit of Carry On was 
alive and well in Blighty long before Sid James et al took up the 
standard:  

     * Arthur Arse (London)

     * Margaret Piss (Middlesex)

     * Valentine Fart (London)

     * Elizabeth Shag (Lancaster)

     * Benjamine Bottom (Sheffield)

     * Harriett Shite (East Sussex)

     * Minnie Shafter (Kingston Upon Hull)

     * Willie Cock (London)

     * Annie Fanny (Lincoln)

     * Wilfred Minge (Sark)

     * Rose Shitter (Hampshire)

     * Ivy Crapper (London)

     * Alice Turd (Southampton)

     * William Poop (Sussex)

     * Samuel Pants (London)

     * Moses Winkle (Staffordshire)

 * Daisy Shatter (Isle of White)



It's possible, of course, that some of these names may be genuine. If so, 
we apologise for any offence we may have caused to Britain's Shafters and 
Minges. ®  

Bootnote
 Thanks to reader DP for alerting us to this merriment. Readers are 
invited to imagine what exactly those initials might represent.