Q: Pupil of the eye as the most expansive male organ

[Jonathan Lighter]

I heard a form of this riddle in N.Y.C about 1964. I believe it was, "What part of a man's body expands to X times its size when he sees a pretty girl ?  His eyes."  A follow-up was "What's hairy and sticks so far out of a man's pajamas at night you could hang a hat on it ?  His head." A third in the sequence was, "What goes in hard and comes out soft ? Bubblegum."

  "Honi soit...," as they say.  (Or as _Mad_ magazine once translated it in the margin, "Honey, why did you swat Mel in the pants ?"

  JL


"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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There is the riddle "What part of the male anatomy expands the most
between its smallest and its largest size?" (meaning
percentage-wise: largest size divided by smallest). The answer I
heard was the pupil of the eye. [Yes I know the female anatomy has
pupils also, but saying "male" is of course designed to point
responders in a different direction.]

Someone elsewhere tells me "it's in the screenplay of _Kinsey_ where
Liam Neeson plays it with a twinkle". But I think I heard this long
before this movie. Can anyone cite an earlier source?

Joel

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