Getting the joke 30 years later - just me?

[HappySquid]

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 got the Shawn one straight away, had a good giggle at that one, but there's loads of stuff I've missed in the past and I think it sometimes makes it even funnier when you've seen or read something loads of times and all of a sudden something clicks!

of course that one is about stalking, wasn't it true in real life with sting and his ex? Lyrics are blatant

I never realised that about Shaun the Sheep either haha!

First piggie went to market while all the others escaped it,

I thought the same!

Yup, why would you advertise your product as penis anyway.... surely more off putting than a sales maker.

it is! in that it is ambiguous, could be his girlfriend or his habit! life’s full of little disappointments Longrider, sorry 😔

Wow, I’m learning so much

That Bryan Adam's wasn't singing about the year in "Summer of 69"....
and (for those of us old enough!) Cupid Stunt on the Kenny Everett Television Show...

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

I always thought it was about the solution to a problem and that you should be included. Then I realised solution as in liquid... 🤦‍♀️

Not even in most English

Growing up in Glasgow we called a baby/child a wean (pronounced wain). Until I was well into adulthood I thought we were singing “ A wean in a manger” which made total sense .

Bryan Adams co-writer Jim Vallance claims the song is about the year though.
He was 17 in the Summer of 69, while Adams was 10 so maybe they were thinking of different things when they wrote the song…
It was originally going to be called Best Days of my Life.

An me

🤣🤣🤣

Sausage in a bottle by Police

A Close Shave. It will be on at Christmas. It's very funny. Shaun and shorn are the same in my SE accent. I'd be really interested to know how/where they are pronounced differently.

Well we thought it was funny.

The Saint John in Jane Eyre is another one

Apparently it's pronoun sin John, is that right?

So does Shorn become showrn? Struggling here as the all sound the same to me. Help much appreciated.

I daresay I've been around a bit longer than you have, and have listened to a lot more music. I'm not denying that SOME lyrics have hidden meanings, but they most certainly all don't. This modern trend of analysing every single lyric and looking for the hidden meanings is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to prove how clever and wordly you (generic you) are. It's really beyond boring.

Yes, shorn is showrn (with the r being pronounced as my accent is rhotic).

Never heard of a rhotic accent so learning here.

Well at 58 and thanks to you I’ve just learnt something 😂. I always thought exactly the same as you about Madonna keeping her boyfriend even though her Dad didn’t approve of him. I honestly didn’t know she was expecting at the time. You can guess what song I can’t get out of my head now, can’t you 🙂. Proves your never to old to learn.

Sinjun.