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That brings back the memory of a story, a strange and funny story.
I once was helping a friend inventory the household items of a recently deceased elder, it was a large ranch house with decades of collected oddities. In the pantry, among some unusually unique items was a unique mechanical corkscrew from, perhaps, the 1910s-ish.
It was designed to resemble a sommelier in period dress though the accommodating design made it appear to be something else altogether. Made mostly of pewter, the majority of the outer portions of the thing was simple shapes embossed with features. The top was a disk with a face on one side and the back of the head on the other. The face had a mustache, a smile with eyes lowered and hair parted in the middle. The arms were arms with garter-ed sleeves and the rest was an enclosed sheath around the auger part that was rather phallic in its shape - embossed with his jacket-less suit which included a vest and pin striped pants and a cummerbund. So the the head went up and down as did the arms, it was such a funny thing when we discovered it, we had been enlightening ourselves along the way, my friend held it up, pulled the auger up and down a few times to watch the arms flap and the head go up and down like a Rock 'em Sock 'em toy and proclaimed, "Well, that... that's a pumpin' dickneck that you got right there!" After which we laughed for quite a while. I think of that every time I see that style corkscrew being played with and it makes me laugh really hard.
