Johnny is not only a shortened verison of the name Jonathan but also slang for a condom. This slang term has quite an interesting history, it comes from "Johnny Frenchman" a term used to speak about French people.
A condom was at one point known as a French letter, the reason for this is that the condom gets its name from Colonel Condom one of Britain's Royal Guards who improved it to protect his forced from the saucy French. It was known as a French letter (the French called it an English letter), later a Frenchie and finally a Johnny from Johnny Frenchman!
As you can see in Allo! Allo!, our point of view hasn't really changed!
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