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And they built a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge all around the loch to capitalize on that. But then they found themselves with terrible traffic problem.

Since all of the city plus Marin County had been drowned up to the top of the Marin Headlands, and San Francisco never had a city council in the first place (as a city and county, it has the Board of Supervisors fill both functions), that was a moot point.

Fleet Week in San Francisco Bay after the climate change apocalypse.

This is who really writes the rejection slips.

Are there even flamingos in France? That was my first thought upon reading the OP. Flamingos are native to the tropics, and subtropics, but they don't normally migrate outside of those latitudes. I would think even southernmost France would be too far north for them. Another reason for...

By the 31st century, with aliens living among the wizards and broomstick flying long obsolete, Quidditch had evolved into Chickenball.

But kids today are growing up after the Naked Gun movies, and plenty of other pop culture that teaches them that kind of vocabulary. Middle schoolers probably know the alternative meaning of beaver, and if they don't, a peer will enlighten them.

I wouldn't pick the Brenda's Beaver type books for a kid either. Dr. Seuss, sure. Anyone here familiar with the movie The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen? I first saw it at the age of 12 or thereabouts, when it was in theaters, and it presents as a completely family friendly movie... but...

Definitely intentionally so! I just found a reading of it on YouTube. Every page is nothing but double entendres. When the video finished, the other video thumbnails that loaded were all of illustrated books, apparently children's books, loaded with the same kinds of double entendres...

There are plenty of innocent titles that can be construed as something dirty. Like the TV show Leave it to Beaver. I guess that didn't land as an inappropriate nickname for a kid in the 1950s, when it originally aired. Or the reading primer widely used in American schools in the same era, Dick...

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L. Frank Baum, best known for creating the Wizard of Oz, fractured that tale and came up with a not so dark version. At least, it's not so dark given the cultural normalcy of corporal punishment at the time. The kids in his version have earned it, by playing a prank on the baker that resulted in...

I'd be surprised if no one's done that already. Surely there's some amateur YouTube video of it.

Yep. Scientific Progress Goes Boink is both a line in one of the cartoons and the title of a Calvin and Hobbes collection. Charles Perrault's fairy tale collection had some cleaner versions. Not as uber wholesome as Disney, but Perrault is at least lighter on the severed body parts. He's also...

That's a children's game too: ring around the rosie.