Some of his most suggestive ideas were disallowed by the Production Code; in Tashlin's original script, Lewis's character was named "Fullstick," but the censors ordered the removal of this phallic joke.

But the craziest sculpture of the season is surely Eichhörnchen, Meret Oppenheim's squirrel-tailed beer mug, a fuzzily phallic joke, in Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism (Manchester Art Gallery, until 10 January).

What happens between the two of them is as predictable as the never-ending phallic jokes - a surfeit of single-entendres - that are festooned across the boat decks by the director, Mort Nathan.

She, John Bolton and Jeff Gurner search for love in five restaurants, with a too-generous portion of bad accents and phallic jokes along the way (1:30).

Inwardly she thought of all the phallic jokes the men must be making about this immense tower.

Nostalgically, they roared out the time-honored phallic jokes remembered from their family bridals.