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Getting the joke 30 years later - just me?

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HappySquid · 29/11/2024 21:10

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?!

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ErrolTheDragon · 30/11/2024 21:29

Another one at the back who needs this joke explained

It's explained upthread...The second nun is hearing it as 'wears the soap', maybe you can work it out for yourself from that?

Damnloginpopup · 30/11/2024 21:49

Allo Allo - Herr Flick.

FFS. Took me decades.

noodlezoodle · 30/11/2024 22:21

ChannelLightVessel · 30/11/2024 21:12

Well, I spent 8 years living in the USA, and I never realised that “criss cross apple sauce” rhymes. However, I did finally realise where “Deputy Dawg” got his name: it’s just the American pronunciation of dog.

Meanwhile, there was a popular series of picture books about a llama mother and child written in rhyming couplets, which hinged on ‘llama’ and ‘mama’ rhyming. Except I can’t get them to rhyme. I notice they’ve never been published in the U.K.

Ludacris can help you out with the Llama llama thing Grin

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ImTheOnlyUpsyOne · 30/11/2024 22:27

AndCoronets · 30/11/2024 06:25

Feeling gormless as I didn't realise most of the above.
And my more basic realisation - The Peter and Jane books, I only saw the pun in Pat the dog about 40yrs too late 🤦‍♀️

Right....only just got this now. Literally said to ds6 the other day, it's an odd name for a dog, it's short for Patrick haha

merryhouse · 30/11/2024 22:44

Damnloginpopup · 30/11/2024 21:49

Allo Allo - Herr Flick.

FFS. Took me decades.

care to share?

(I spent half an episode thinking Helga was calling him Hefflig, so I'm already two steps behind)

As to the rest of this thread, I am strongly reminded of Geraldine saying "do you know Alice, I'm actually surprised you got that..."

Nikitaspearlearring · 30/11/2024 22:58

merryhouse · 30/11/2024 22:44

care to share?

(I spent half an episode thinking Helga was calling him Hefflig, so I'm already two steps behind)

As to the rest of this thread, I am strongly reminded of Geraldine saying "do you know Alice, I'm actually surprised you got that..."

Hair flick?

ForGreyKoala · 01/12/2024 00:19

Zonder · 30/11/2024 07:41

Now that I've tried to
Talk to you and make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands and touch me

I've always hated that song because it definitely sounds like coercion.

If you say so, I don't get that at all.

It really annoys me when people try to find meanings which aren't even there in song lyrics. Who would be a song writer!

Longrider · 01/12/2024 00:21

ErrolTheDragon · 30/11/2024 21:29

Another one at the back who needs this joke explained

It's explained upthread...The second nun is hearing it as 'wears the soap', maybe you can work it out for yourself from that?

It does depend on where’s and wears sounding the same in your accent though. They don’t in mine so I definitely needed the explanation 😁

ForGreyKoala · 01/12/2024 00:54

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 30/11/2024 17:54

And yes, I am interested. I've taught languages for 30 years. And I've been on umpteen threads where arguments and ignorance have erupted about rhotic and non-rhotic accents. Nobody could accuse me of not being egalitarian in my annoyance - I find it equally irritating whether people call the rhotic version wrong or the non-rhotic version wrong.

Do you lot realise just how boring this is for those of us who were enjoying a light hearted thread? If you must discuss this why not start your own thread and leave the rest of us to our simple pleasures.

CaptainMyCaptain · 01/12/2024 07:46

Upupandaway10 · 30/11/2024 21:23

Another one at the back who needs this joke explained Blush

The implication is that they are using the soap to masturbate. I heard this joke at school in the 60s.

Zonder · 01/12/2024 08:03

ForGreyKoala · 01/12/2024 00:19

If you say so, I don't get that at all.

It really annoys me when people try to find meanings which aren't even there in song lyrics. Who would be a song writer!

And this is why people get away with it for so long.

VacuumPacked · 01/12/2024 08:10

ForGreyKoala · 01/12/2024 00:19

If you say so, I don't get that at all.

It really annoys me when people try to find meanings which aren't even there in song lyrics. Who would be a song writer!

So it annoys you? because you ‘don’t get it’

this is a bj plea - disguised as showing ‘love’ ie coercion

more worldly listeners understand immediately -

@Zonder even provided descriptive lyrics - song taken from
the album Pornograffitti heavy rock band Extreme

There are many hidden meanings in songs - to beat the censors
many songs from the fifties were coded, especially black American lyrics
or earlier, “Strange Fruit” for example

Rock and Roll (the devil’s music) banned as it supposedly incited fornication

  • sexual congress being referred to by black American musicians as
the old rock ‘n’ roll

There are many many drug references embedded in song, some with
extraordinary ambivalence, most famously the Stranglers ‘Golden Brown’
which they disarmingly described as being about their love of toast???
they are hardly going to say - heroin/girlfriend when they need airtime ?
Or the peaen to heroin which is Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’ both
referencing Odysseus, temptation, tides.

It’s all out there, in plain hearing - if you find the lyrics it’s in plain sight.
Understanding essential.

VacuumPacked · 01/12/2024 08:21

^^

I don’t know why the middle section has broken up as I didn’t type it
that way?

AChickenPooAndABiscuit · 01/12/2024 10:58

JawsCushion · 30/11/2024 07:36

I didn't get K9, the dog in Doctor Who was a play on the word canine..

You’re not alone… Penny suddenly dropped earlier this year… I’m 52 and have been watching since Tom Baker Grin

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 01/12/2024 11:55

ForGreyKoala · 01/12/2024 00:54

Do you lot realise just how boring this is for those of us who were enjoying a light hearted thread? If you must discuss this why not start your own thread and leave the rest of us to our simple pleasures.

Have you tried scrolling past the few posts you find boring (in this thread of 464 posts)? That's what I generally do. HTH.

AConstipatedAccountantJustCantBudget · 01/12/2024 12:16

Zonder · 01/12/2024 08:03

And this is why people get away with it for so long.

For a long time, there were a great many people who thought that Afternoon Delight, by the Starland Vocal Band, was genuinely about enjoying a delicious extravagant dessert!

They even did an episode of Glee where the innocent teacher thought it was just a song about a fabulous pudding!

AConstipatedAccountantJustCantBudget · 01/12/2024 12:36

VacuumPacked · 01/12/2024 08:10

So it annoys you? because you ‘don’t get it’

this is a bj plea - disguised as showing ‘love’ ie coercion

more worldly listeners understand immediately -

@Zonder even provided descriptive lyrics - song taken from
the album Pornograffitti heavy rock band Extreme

There are many hidden meanings in songs - to beat the censors
many songs from the fifties were coded, especially black American lyrics
or earlier, “Strange Fruit” for example

Rock and Roll (the devil’s music) banned as it supposedly incited fornication

  • sexual congress being referred to by black American musicians as
the old rock ‘n’ roll

There are many many drug references embedded in song, some with
extraordinary ambivalence, most famously the Stranglers ‘Golden Brown’
which they disarmingly described as being about their love of toast???
they are hardly going to say - heroin/girlfriend when they need airtime ?
Or the peaen to heroin which is Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’ both
referencing Odysseus, temptation, tides.

It’s all out there, in plain hearing - if you find the lyrics it’s in plain sight.
Understanding essential.

I always used to chuckle, every single time, when Terry Wogan played Golden Brown and announced it as "a song about our beloved Chancellor/Prime Minister" as appropriate at the time!

Dobest · 01/12/2024 13:52

There are many many drug references embedded in song, some with
extraordinary ambivalence, most famously the Stranglers ‘Golden Brown’
which they disarmingly described as being about their love of toast

I'm just glad to hear that wasn't about bumsex.

Bodeganights · 01/12/2024 14:01

GetDownkeith · 30/11/2024 07:43

Sorry I’m not getting what you mean.
In my accent sauce definitely rhymes with boss and not source.

So you say
Soss for sauce?
Hoss for horse?

This is the most wonderful thread ever, bangs gavel.

Damnloginpopup · 01/12/2024 14:31

merryhouse · 30/11/2024 22:44

care to share?

(I spent half an episode thinking Helga was calling him Hefflig, so I'm already two steps behind)

As to the rest of this thread, I am strongly reminded of Geraldine saying "do you know Alice, I'm actually surprised you got that..."

He was always tossing his head remember? Flicking his hair in a hair flick...

Damnloginpopup · 01/12/2024 14:35

Golden Brown was about heroin. Drummer Jet Black mentioned toast as an offhand joke in an interview.

Strange fruit was about lynchings.

VacuumPacked · 01/12/2024 14:39

Damnloginpopup · 01/12/2024 14:35

Golden Brown was about heroin. Drummer Jet Black mentioned toast as an offhand joke in an interview.

Strange fruit was about lynchings.

I’m guessing these remarks are to @ForGreyKoala as I don’t believe any one else needs this explaining?

Longrider · 01/12/2024 16:50

That’s a bit mean @VacuumPacked. I thought Golden Brown was about a girl (to the extent I thought about it at all, which was barely).

ErrolTheDragon · 01/12/2024 17:02

I always used to chuckle, every single time, when Terry Wogan played Golden Brown and announced it as "a song about our beloved Chancellor/Prime Minister" as appropriate at the time!

I didn't listen to Wogan but I'm sure we all thought 'never a frown with Gordon Brown ' was funny because it was so very much not the case!

Oldbutstillachild · 01/12/2024 17:46

Mine was when I was 35, watching Addams Family, and realised why he was called Uncle FESTER 🤦🏻‍♀️

My husband's was realising Flo Rida was from Florida 😂