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 was almost 30 before I realised Madonna was pregnant in Papa Don’t Preach - I thought she was just telling her Dad she won’t split up with her boyfriend (even though she literally says “I’m keeping my baby.. we can raise a little family..”). So innocent! 😂

And nobody ever even gives a second thought to the other poor piggy with incontinence issues.

Have you seen itsbobbyfinn doing his English lessons on Insta ….bloody hilarious!! Not so much about accents but just the way English language words rhyme/don’t rhyme.

In my accent I suppose I do say sauce like soss.
on these threads there are always people saying but nobody says it like that and large parts of the country do say it exactly like that.
Not just in Scotland but large parts of England too but nobody seems to grasp it because they can only hear themselves saying it.

Nobody pronounces it that way?!

What about all the dawwwwwwgs that they're supposedly eating in Springfield?!

I don't get the 50 elephant joke either, you're not alone!

I'm also surprised at the number of people who just cannot possibly imagine how somebody with a different accent - one frequently heard in your own country no less - would pronounce a word.

I get that the penny might not drop initially, but once somebody has explained it (as on here), effectively claiming that you don't know what a Scottish/English/other accent sounds like is just weird.

Perhaps mentioned before - Seaman stains

That's not true, especially if you're like me and live somewhere you weren't raised (which also has a good mix of incomers with a variety of accents).

I also can't imagine my Scottish friend rhyming cross and sauce. I'm almost tempted to ask her to send me a voice note so I can check! 🤣🤣 (We even had a conversation about types of sauce you have on different foods when I was with her last time, which is why I don't think she says 'soss'.)

It took me a very long time before I realised the double meaning in the phrase "Vaseline: it's good for chaps".

Yeah grimmauld place and knockturn alley are brand new to me today 🤣 and I've watched the films and read the books lol

Captain Pugwash? That’s an urban myth.

It’s because it’s made of meat. Which is a bit of an animal.

Not true.

And it was Master Mates, and the cabin boy was called Tom.

The rhotic vs nonrhotic accent thing is hilarious because so many people don't hear it. I'm Scottish but live in England and I've literally said to colleagues 'I say murr-durr with a rolled r and you say muh-dah with the r not being pronounced but being used to extend the vowel sound' and they still can't hear the difference. Conversely my sister had her mind blown when I told her 'lurve' was written that way to extend the vowel sound to make it sound soppy, like most Scots we both pronounce the r when we read it.

Criss cross apple sauce works for me, but the 'of course' doesn't because of that pesky r.

Your friend may not but I can assure you as a Scot who has lived here her whole life in many areas all with different accents we do not rhyme sauce and source!
Like I said this always happens on these threads.

In Winnie the Pooh Kanga calls her baby Roo. So added together when he in her pouch it's kangaroo.i realised this reading to my DS about 17 years ago and my mind is still blown.

It is a play on the word comming. If 50 elephants were ejaculating over a hill, you might needed to 'swim for it'.

I read this as you reading Winnie the Pooh to your 17 year old son 🤦🏼‍♀️

The old 'nuns in the bath' joke took innocent, puzzled little me an absolute age to cotton on to:

Two nuns are in the bath. One says "Where's the soap?" and the other replies "Yes, it does, doesn't it?!"

I'm not saying that you, and others, don't though.

I'm disagreeing with you that we are all so insular we can't imagine how others speak. That was the point I was getting across in the post you've just quoted.

I love accents too, but I find it really odd that so many people seem to find it hard to imagine things sounding different in pretty familiar different accents from their own part of the world! I can instantly 'hear' in my head how 'sauce'and 'cross' would sound in lots of different accents in the British Isles if I think about it.

Yes, and I don't think it's generally hard to pick up puns that don't quite work in my accent but do in another. Especially if there's a massive clue like the the title of Shaun the close-shorn sheep's film being 'a close shave'.

People insisting their accent is the right one and other people's are wrong is weird though - I hope they're joking but they often come across as all too serious.

The baby is actually called Kangaroo in full - because he's a Geordie and, try as he might, he's unable to escape from the pouch.

😱😱😱

How can they fail to notice the difference with 'murder'?! (Though I don't say 'muh' at the start, there's a definite 'r' in there!)