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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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Upupandaway10 · 06/12/2024 00:31

ellebelli · 04/12/2024 11:40

This would have been a fun thread if not for the arguments over how people with different accents hear shorn and shaun
🥱

Yes

TooFondOfBooks · 06/12/2024 15:24

@AndCoronets
Hairy Mclairy isn’t just a Kiwi, his tale (pun intended, sorry) was read by Jacinda Adern to the nation (well, the viewers of Goodnight Kiwi) in 2019.

@Words
Hardy didn’t invent the [Dorset] dialect - & trying to attach hag-rid to Hagrid to strengthen the “Mayor of Casterbridge” claim just looks silly. Why focus on Hardy & not eg Southey[‘s correspondence]? Rowling calling a character an archaic word for bumblebee because she envisaged him humming as he drifted around his study isn’t “derivative” of a passage discussing a character’s use of dialect terms. Unless perhaps you consider all written material derivative because other people have used the words first (sometimes even in the same order 🙀!)?

YourLuckyUmberGuide · 07/12/2024 17:56

Why do females in the UK hate/reject me in the romance/relationship status, and the friendship status

InWithThePlums · 07/12/2024 17:59

YourLuckyUmberGuide · 07/12/2024 17:56

Why do females in the UK hate/reject me in the romance/relationship status, and the friendship status

No idea

YourLuckyUmberGuide · 07/12/2024 18:01

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InWithThePlums · 07/12/2024 18:14

😬

BottomInspector · 07/12/2024 18:16

How can you be sure the creators of the character were aware of the pun? Maybe there was nothing to get.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 07/12/2024 18:16

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So you’ve got a type? 😏 Ladies, we’ve got a live one!

InWithThePlums · 07/12/2024 18:20

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Un-shorn, you might say.

InWithThePlums · 07/12/2024 18:22

BottomInspector · 07/12/2024 18:16

How can you be sure the creators of the character were aware of the pun? Maybe there was nothing to get.

Not a chance, I reckon, given the obvious amount of thought that goes into those films.

TheThreeCheesesOfTheApocalypse44 · 07/12/2024 18:27

There's a guy on Tik Tok and Facebook called Sean the Sheepman.......I'm now obsessed with Sheepherding 🤣🤣🤣

MaggieHM · 07/12/2024 18:30

Paul McCartney and John Lennon both denied Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was about LSD. John said it was all about a picture Julian drew at school.

FogoVonSlack · 07/12/2024 18:40

I only just realised why the band was called Scissor Sisters. That took an embarrassingly long time to register.

MisterT373 · 07/12/2024 18:46

MadmansLibrary · 30/11/2024 00:37

@JellyBeanFactory The whole song is about masturbation.

As is Cindy Lauper's "She-Bop"

Bec2990 · 07/12/2024 18:51

I was today years old, too!🤦‍♀️

Littlejellyuk · 07/12/2024 18:53

BeMintBee · 29/11/2024 21:20

I thought the lyrics to Barbie girl were “I’m a fucking girl in the fucking world” until I got caught singing it at my Saturday job 😳

Omg I've just cried tears before laughter
My hubby thought more than a woman (by Bee Gees) bald headed woman 😆 🤣 😂

lovelymojitos · 07/12/2024 18:53

The humerus being your funny bone was completely lost on me until last year! (And I’m a 44yr old Dr!)

EeyoresLostTail · 07/12/2024 19:25

GetDownkeith · 30/11/2024 08:27

And it’s sausage shaped

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The Character in the Advert is called "Animal"

Stresshead84x · 07/12/2024 19:29

TwinklyTornadoBear · 30/11/2024 04:43

My youngest was taught this in reception - cross and sauce dont rhyme in my accent (Berkshire) but the rest of it is ‘Criss cross apple sauce, this is how we sit of course. Hands in our baskets!’
Not sure if they added the ‘of course bit’ for those of us with other accents, though now trying to think of one where cross and sauce do rhyme!

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I'm Scottish and cross and sauce rhyme, Auto and Otto sound the same too.

Combattingthemoaners · 07/12/2024 19:38

Matildahoney · 03/12/2024 18:29

Thanks to all those of you discussing dialects/accents however you want to describe it for ruining a light-hearted thread, could you not have started your own body thread about if?!

Watch the first film if you still don't understand it

Typical MN! So many miseries unable to crack a smile.

ShellRB · 07/12/2024 20:16

Wallace names Shan in A Close Shave, where he first appears.

FelixDeKatz · 07/12/2024 20:53

FrabjousDays · 30/11/2024 01:08

In which film? Wallace isn’t in Shaun the Sheep. I get that for people with a certain accent, including Wallace from the Aardman films, ‘Shorn’ and ‘Shaun’ are homonyms. I’m just pointing out that the joke doesn’t work for all accents because the two words are pronounced differently.

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Shaun's first appearance was in "A Close Shave", which was a W&G movie

He later got spun off in his own independent series.

Longrider · 07/12/2024 20:53

ShellRB · 07/12/2024 20:16

Wallace names Shan in A Close Shave, where he first appears.

Yeah, but if you don’t have the right accent it’s easy to miss the pun.

QuirkyRedRobin · 07/12/2024 22:25

Seriously….. these posts sound like people with nothing else to think sbout

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