Getting the joke 30 years later - just me?

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I have just realised that Shaun the Sheep's name is a play on words (Shaun/shorn). Feeling rather sheepish.

Has anyone else come across a joke that only sunk in many years later or is it just me?!

I mean it’s not very funny! It’s just a stupid pun.

@Bowies and @Hugformydad you may be recalling an illustration in "Pigling Bland" by Beatrix Potter. Here's the front cover The Tale of Pigling Bland.

Shaun the Sheep originated in the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave, released in 1995 - so, unbelievable as the racing march of time seems to most of us, it very nearly was 30 years ago.

If we were talking in assembly (1960s) there was one teacher who would always say 'Stop your social intercourse'. I'm sure he knew what he was doing.

Let's just hope it is indeed that - and only that!!

Shaun the Sheep first appeared in A Close Shave 29 years ago. So almost 30.

Get lost 🤣

Im not having that.

I myself am only 27, I absolutely will not accept that 1995 was nearly 30 years ago. The maths just isn’t mathsing for me. People born in ‘95 are only 10

Not homophones.

The film A Close Shave - in which Shaun the Sheep first appears, and Wallace names him Shaun after he has been through the machine and had his fleece shorn off - came out in 1995. So the original joke is very nearly 30 years old!

My kids take great delight in pointing out that the 90s were 30 years ago. They know I'll dispute it.

Same 😂

I certainly didn’t get it. And now I’ve realised (having said both a few times) that I do pronounce Shaun and shorn slightly differently.

Any bit of animal that has been chopped up and formed into a sausage!

What's the 'turning Japanese' innuendo? Singing that chorus in my head as I type this 🤣

I can much more understand the lawn/ gone than the horse and boss.Sauce is borderline but maybe the hint is in they are spelt differently!!
Horse has an h for a start . I see no way to equate that with a 4 letter word starting with b and having a double s at the end ,

It's like saying I've lost my lip glorse.

Sorry just saw this got answered!

but he used to say "I am called The Count because I LOOOOOOOVE to count"

Mispronounce 😆Like a massive proportion of the country? Including Pete Sallis when he originally introduced the name? It's not mispronunciation just because they don't speak like you!

🤷‍♀️ I guess it's like dropping a "t", lots of English people incorrectly drop the "r". There's no problem with it, it's just dropping a sound. Very common, happens a lot.

I never saw that one!!!!!

Shaun the sheep comes from the film "A Close Shave" which came out in 1995 - so, very nearly 30 years ago

no it isn't

It’s not dropping the r; the r is just silent in certain accents. Pronouncing it is no more correct than not pronouncing it.

Yes, me. Until quite recently.
I thought the pig was going shopping at the market (and yes, swinging a wicker basket!).

We've got Saturday Mash-up on CBBC on right now. Every week, at the end, they have 'Strictly Come Sliming', where the two hosts dress up as 'Claudia Sprinkleman' and 'Mess Daly' (so glad that classic Saturday morning kids' TV lives on!).

However, Shereen, who portrays 'Mess', is from Lanarkshire. In character, she swaps her own Scottish accent for a (very good imho) English accent; BUT it's a cut-glass southern English accent - and nothing like Tess's own northern accent whatsoever - so I've never quite figured out the thinking behind that!

🤷‍♀️ I guess it's like dropping a "t", lots of English people incorrectly drop the "r". There's no problem with it, it's just dropping a sound. Very common, happens a lot.

No, of course it's not like dropping a 't' Have you tried looking in the dictionary? Rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciation are included and both are perfectly correct. You won't find dropped-t versions of words listed in a dictionary!