The punchline to a joke that caused me much confusion aged about 10. The joke: a woman goes to the doctor and explains that every time she takes her bra off, a wild-eyed black man bursts from between her breasts and shouts nonsense. The doctor tells her she has "silly coon" implants.

At age 10, when my friend told me this gag, it baffled me. I was an animal lover and pretty unversed in racist monikers, so as far as I was concerned, "coon" was short for "raccoon". Naturally, I was left wondering what on Earth a small mammal of the family Procyonidae had to do with black men and boobies.