Also?

[cyrano]

It makes me just a little bitey-crazy when they use the phrase "if you know what I mean" in porn stories. Because, inevitably, there's no subtlety and no chance you'd miss the innuendo even if it weren't porn and were instead a report to Congress on agricultural trends and sorghum production.
"I very much wanted to have the sex with her, if you know what I mean."
Yes. Yes, I think I do.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

The thing is, they're convinced that they're being so *amazingly* clever, in the style of F.Scott and Zelda, or Oscar Wilde. But they're afraid that they've been *too* clever and so they helpfully point out where they've been clever so that folks don't blithely wander past their creative genius.