History DoubleEntendre / Literature

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/StormFront'' a photographer talks about "shooting his roll" taking pictures of an orgy. Harry is amused that the photographer didn't catch the double entendre he just made.

** Harry enters the ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' to find Ginny, [[spoiler:his future wife]]. And has to fight a [[BiggusDickus giant snake]] with a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything legendary sword]]. He ends the episode by flying out of a deep shaft, with Ginny hanging on to his leg.

* An odd example appears in the audiobook - and possibly ONLY the audiobook, depending on how you read it - of Patricia C. Wrede's ''Literature/DealingWithDragons.'' Cimorene's father, upon hearing that she doesn't want to marry Prince Therandil, responds with, "Well, it's not exactly a brilliant match, but I didn't think you'd care how big his kingdom is." The voice actor on the audiobook takes it one step further by including a significant pause between "his" and "kingdom."

* Nanny Ogg from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series by Creator/TerryPratchett enjoys using these, although according to ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', hers are usually "single entendres, and proud of it". Then there's this gem:

** In {{Discworld/Maskerade}}, Agnes muses that the opera Ghost will no doubt have a secret hideaway with flowers and, yes, an enormous organ. On which he will play a variety of tunes. Later in the book, one character mentions that "our organ's a Johnson", having been built by Bloody Stupid Johnson.
** There's also a non-sexual double meaning in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', when Sybil is musing on Vimes' berserk rage: "There'd been the case with that little girl and those men over in Dolly Sisters, and when they broke in he'd found that one of them had stolen one of her shoes, and she'd heard Detritus say that if he hadn't been there only Sam would have walked out of the room alive." Vimes insists that he's never deliberately killed anyone, so probably the obvious meaning is the true one here, but one can imagine that Sybil is pretty damn worried over the phrasing.
*** Speaking of ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', there's also a subplot concerning an industrialist who gets murdered in his own condom factory. There's as much DoubleEntendre as you'd expect; enough, indeed, that the word "condom" isn't mentioned once and doesn't need to be.

** In ''Discworld/TheTruth'', Vimes tells newspaper editor William de Worde that it looks as though the President of the Guild of Shoemakers and Leatherworkers will be the next Patrician, and names the man and gives the address of his shop. The guy doesn't sell shoes, but what he does sell comes under the heading of leatherwork, and there isn't a Guild of Makers of Little Jiggly Things for him to belong to instead.
** In ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes keeps trying to use these, but Sybil curtails him.

** In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', a double entendre is made by ''Vetinari'' of all people. When Glenda goes to see him, Drumknott introduces her by saying "A woman is here to see you. She has a complaint. She is a maid." He ''means'' that she is a servant, and has a complaint which may or may not be related, but Vetinari, [[LiteralistSnarking probably intentionally]], thinks he means that her complaint is that she is unmarried, and replies, "Tell her I can't help her with that. Has she tried using a different perfume?"

* "Anguished English" (a book about funny language mistakes) has the following line (reportedly written by a student) "At the end of "The Awakening, Edna thinks only of herself. Her suicide is selfish because she leaves all who [[AmbiguousSyntax care about her behind."]] (which can techincally be read as a ''triple'' entendre, as it could mean "care about her behind" as in the preposition, caring about her actual posterior, or care about (someone's) behind in the idiomatic sense of "give a damn about" or "care about".

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fans have found dozens of [[HaveAGayOldTime unintentional]] (and some [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar intentional]]) innuendos: