re: #286 gregb

Not to break the pun thread, but is it “in like Flynn” or “in like Flynt”. I never understood the phrase.

re: #295 MandyManners

Flynn as in Eroll Flynn.

And it references a very disturbing incident:

Flynn, a popular film star in the 1930s, became notorious in November 1942 when he was charged with two counts of statutory rape. Though acquitted he was the butt of jokes ever after.

One film bio none too subtly comments, “Warner Brothers … found [Flynn’s] popularity not only had held but had a new spurt of interest. A new phrase was added to the English language: `In like Flynn’” (Tony Thomas et al, The Films of Errol Flynn, 1969).