References to Aspirin in the "Chicago" musical
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The word "aspirin" for long was used as an euphemism for "condoms".
To speak about condoms was considered indecent. They were sold at the same place - drugstore, and in small paper packages, as aspirin. So, the word "aspirin" started to be used as an euphemism.
There was even an old anecdote about it:
An interview in the television study for a position of an announcer.
A guy with tic comes. He winks incessantly.
Everything is excellent, but they say:
-- Sorry, your tic could be a problem.
-- Oh, it is not a problem, one aspirin an I am OK.
The guy looks in pockets, pulls out several heaps of condoms, at last finds a package of aspirin, swallows it the tic stops and he passes all remaining tests.
-- You are fine, but we are a decent company and don't want to take such sexual aggressor.
-- You mean these condoms? Try to ask for an aspirin in a drugstore and wink!
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Here is what I found.. Aspirin seems to be the lyric which best translates into the 21st century
Slang City
Hold on, hon
We're gonna bunny hug
*bunny hug Thanks to reader Jim P., who writes "That actually refers to a dance popular in the 1920s called the Bunny Hug which apparently was meant to simulate rabbits having sex." I'd like to see that! Or maybe not...
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Slang City
I bought some aspirin down at United Drug
in anticipation of tomorrow's hangoverIn case you shake apart
And want a brand-new start
To do that -
Shimmy shake dance by wiggling the body from side to side
That's pretty much how I dance now.
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