No one thought the line was off color when the UK Telegraph published this opening paragraph in a column:
The best way for girls to avoid pregnancy is by taking an aspirin, said the school nurse. We all stared at her in confusion until she continued, laughing, and holding it very tightly between their knees. I went to a co-ed convent school. Despite this and the Vaticans standing on contraception, we were taught about condoms, the Pill and, most importantly, the legal, moral and psychological issues surrounding sexual relationships. How things have changed. Now it transpires that school nurses are prescribing a lot more than just an aspirin theyre giving out contraceptive implants.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9075260/Underage-sex-Parents-just-say-no.html
Of course no one found it off color and everyone thought it was appropriately funny when a column in FireDogLake.com (which calls itself a leading progressive news site, online community, and action organization consistently ranked as one of the most influential political websites) used the line to make fun of McCain in 2008:
Because nothing says keep that aspirin between your legs, girls like a hot dog social with John McCain. Yeppers.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/11/abstinence-making-the-heart-grow-fonder-for-mccain-nope/
My great grandmother called it the apple method which tells me that the joke probably goes back centuries.
This progressive guide uses the same common-sense aspirin-between-the-knees humor as its introduction:
"Rule #1 in not getting pregnant: Don't have sex. It's an interesting (and fool-proof) approach to birth control, but it's clearly not for everybody. So what's Rule #2? It's this: Don't have sex without contraceptives. That's probably a more useful (and more practical) approach for more women than Rule #1, or its corollary that you won't get pregnant if you hold an aspirin snugly between your knees on a date."
In was hoping this would be Kari Byron showing us...