Is this humor too saucy? Does it corrupt the youth or harm society?

[Lliam]

Here are some great quotes:

"It's better to be looked over than overlooked."

"When women go wrong, men go right after them!"

"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better."

"I only like two kinds of men: Foreign and Domestic."

"I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it."

"It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."

"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired."

"To err is human, but it feels divine."

"Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them."

~ Mae West

Updates

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For a short period between the late 19-teens and 1934, Hollywood had the ability to make films in a somewhat unregulated fashion. This era is now known as Pre-code Hollywood; referring to the time before the Hays code.

www.studiobinder.com/.../

[MzAsh]

You forgot the one that inspired my blog, “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”


Many of her quotes were said in movies, some in interviews. I personally enjoy her sassy humor as it’s a reminder that women are always in charge of their love lives and they get to manage it as they see fit. And that life isn’t always so serious so being uptight about life, love, and sex will make anyone miserable, so have fun with it from time to time.

[Lliam]

I love that, MzAsh. Great comment.

[Lliam]

That's a wonderful blog, MzAsh. I'll save it and read more.

I love your comment, too. I feel the same way.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Heck no... That's part of the problem with today's society, they can't take a damn joke... They spend more time going after people for "jokes" than people that commit crimes, go figure🤷🏼‍♀️

[Lliam]

Right?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Thanks for mh friend😊

[OlderAndWiser]

Mae West was definitely ahead of her time!

[Lliam]

Yup. Her routine was really cool. She came out of the jazz age, the roaring 20s, where things were less... inhibited.

[OlderAndWiser]

Yes, it's difficult to remember that Prohibition was also an era of lowered inhibitions!

[Lliam]

For sure. Great point.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

I like it. Reminds me of Yogi Berra’s quotes:
1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

2. You can observe a lot by just watching.

3. It ain’t over till it’s over.

4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.

5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

6. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

8. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

9. We made too many wrong mistakes.

10. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

11. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.

12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

13. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

14. Never answer an anonymous letter.

15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

16. How can you think and hit at the same time?

17. The future ain’t what it used to be.

18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

19. It gets late early out here.

20. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.

21. We have deep depth.

22. Pair up in threes.

23. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.

24. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

25. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

26. Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

27. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

28. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.

29. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

30. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.

31. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

32. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

33. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

34. In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

35. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

36. I never said most of the things I said.

37. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

38. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

39. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.

41. Take it with a grin of salt.

42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.

43. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

44. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

45. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

46. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.

47. I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.

48. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.

49. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.

[RosieMelts]

Only bad if society took it too literal or if youth

believed all those quotes and believed there was no other option. Ever. Always “cracking” the law etc.

Bad if the youth severely misinterpret it, and don’t see it for what it is.

That’s just my opinion at a glance, meanwhile, having never heard of Mae West.

[Lliam]

She was a theater and movie star in the 1930s.

[RosieMelts]

Awe how wonderful. She seems right up there with Marilyn Monroe in her spunky personality! I have to see how she looked as well.

[AviatorTom]

Classic, and there's at least a bit of truth in every one of them.

Must add this one..

"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

[Lliam]

That's a great one, too. 🤣

[AmandaYVR]

Nah, they're all fine. 👍

I laughed at "foreign and domestic." 🎬

Yes, re: Update! Good times...

[Lliam]

You might find the article interesting. I did.

[FunkyMonkee]

Some say a good man is hard to find. I say, a hard man is good to find!

[sage2021]

@FunkyMonkee. My mom told my sister and me that while we were growing up. I never knew it was from Mae West. I just thought Mom was giving us good advice 🤭

[FunkyMonkee]

@sage2021 I'm not sure Mae west said it, either but there was song at least back in the `50's called, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and then a bawdy comedian named Rusty Warren sang it her way in the early `60's and it became: "A Hard Man Is Good To Find".

[FunkyMonkee]

Yes, I know about the Hayes Office! They're even mentioned in a Warner Brothers cartoon or two! "A Tale Of Two Kitties", the second Tweetie Bird cartoon. He might've already been called, Tweetie, by then but, in his first cartoon, he was known as Orson.
You can hear it at 1:40 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5GdhX0rVMA

[exitseven]

I did not know about the Hays code. I think it is all in good fun, not like some of the stuff thst passes for comedy today.

[VIVANT]

Fun fact: They have what in my opinion are basically round yodels called maywest, in Canada. Cheeky 😎

[VIVANT]

Imagine yodels were called Betty Boop lol

[Lliam]

? I don't know what a yodel is.

[VIVANT]

Lol sorry maybe an east coast thing?
chocolate cakes rolls with crème inside

[jshm2]

It's neither humorous, nor quoteworthy.

You disappointed a lot of people, bucko.