Holy Comics Code, Batman!

I ran into this on the blog Grotesque Anatomy:

NARRATIVE CAPTION: "Then, as Flash's fingers go into titillating action..."
FLASH: "He's doing it! He's stretching up -- like only the Elongated Man could!"
[A couple pages later]
FLASH: "Yank it, Ralph! Yank it hard!"

- From The Flash #119 (reprinted in The Flash Archives Volume 3)

You see? Silver Age comics were not only escapist, they were educational... encouraging us to use our imagination in many wonderful ways.