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?!

Yes I knew at the time but it's just weird

Interesting so that way Sean Bean would be Shane Bean instead of Shawn Bean?

Help. I have no idea.

It's English out to get you. Sir Cholmondeley St John =Chumley Sinjun. There's a NT house near me once owned by the Featherstonehaughs (Fanshawe).

Me and my DH actually call it the stalker song

It just means all r’s are pronounced in a word.
Here’s an example below. The speakers are American, not Irish like me, but the accents are rhotic too, so the word sounds very similar.

https://forvo.com/word/shorn/

Me and my DH actually call it the stalker song

I call it the creepy stalker song.

The Radio 4 show "Crossing Continents"
I can only hear Cross Incontinence"

Interesting so that way Sean Bean would be Shane Bean instead of Shawn Bean?

I must admit I privately alternate between calling him Seen Been or Shorn Born

who is actually Shaun Bean ha ha, required to rejig his name (too woolly maybe)

this is the incontinence helpline - can you hold on a moment please ?

As they say in Essex, Harwich for the continent, Frinton for the incontinent.

@InWithThePlums "I got the alleys but somehow didn’t notice Grimmauld Place"
What about "Kreacher"? Did you get that play on words?

Re accents - I used to work for Ladybird Books a long time ago, and they brought out some cards where had to match images with words under them if the words rhymed. Absolutely fine, all of them, in a standard southern English accent where Ladybird was located. Cue hundreds of phone calls from irate Scottish mothers pointing out that, for them, claw did not rhyme with door - and I guess many of them would not find that Shaun rhymed with shorn.

No it's Shorn Johrn.

The lyrics of Strange Fruit are not obscure.

• Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop*

😂 Sin Gin where I’m from.

Definitely

Apparently it is not! I think that's an urban myth, but who knows.....?

It's well known to be 'sinjohn' - as in the politician Norman 'Sinjohn' Stevas......

And aren't the Sidebottoms called Sideebotoam or something?

I used to work in a bank and we had customers called Onions / O'Nions. Mostly they seemed to opt for O-Nigh-ons but I was at sixth form with a lad who definitely just called himself Onions.

No I definitely don’t say hoss! I say horse I pronounce the r.
But yes sauce sounds more like soss.

Who remembers Diana Ross' Chain Reaction when she sings 'You make me tremble when your hand moves lower, you taste a little then you swallow slower'. Never really noticed it until a few years ago !

Horrified? I doubt he doesn’t know that everyone thought that!

How do you pronounce cross? I say it with a short o as in off so cr-o-ss and sauce is like you said saw-ss