Getting the joke 30 years later - just me?

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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?!

Last one, promise.

Ok not last one as I reposted the same bloody photo 🤦🏼‍♀️.
Try again, Shaun/shorn.

Yeah I don't "get" it either. I'm not sure it's correct.

No there was some kind of joke which has gone whoosh over my head about 50 elephants coming over a hill and the pun is "swim for it". I normally get every joke really quickly but I'm lost. Apparently only me so that's embarassing.

If 50 elephants came over a hill (i.e. ejaclutaed) the combined amount of fluid would cause a tidal wave that would mean you would need to 'swim' for it to prevent being drowned.

I’m still laughing about one poster saying this thread is the most intellectual thing they have read. Nun jokes, Shaun the Sheep and Harry Potter puns. 😂 Love it.

Yes! Drove and walked past a hairdressers called 'Mr Bit' for several years before one day realising that it was 'missed a bit'!

I thought I got this joke, but I didn’t!

I feel very thick now.

I'm wondering this now as well, apropos Our House. It sounds too simple to not be about something more profound.

In the same way as Sit Down by James isn't just about taking a chair and having a rest for five minutes - although our DS's nursery used to sing the chorus for just that very purpose, when it was 'sit and be quiet' time!

Also, as coffee is a stimulant you get a ‘perk’ or perked up on caffeine! Three meanings

I thought I got this joke, but I didn’t!

I feel very thick now.

You did get the joke. This modern addition of believing that it’s actually about a suicidal chicken is nonsense that there’s no evidence for.

I wouldn’t believe everything you read on MN. The joke can have more than one meaning, lots of people think it’s an anti-joke (a joke that’s just about crossing the road so it’s funny because it’s so obvious ) and others have decided it’s about suicide. I think the latter is quite a recent idea though!

Per my user name, I only realised recently that Margo and Jerry's name was a pun, because they were leading a better life than the Goods.

I presume it specifically mentions nuns because there's an implication that they have, shall we say, more limited (solo only) methods available to them for having a good time in that way.

As an aside "Every Breath You Take" is a very good song to shag to as it is three speeds in one song.

Mine was "why have elephants got big ears? ... because Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom" It was literally years before it clicked. Probably not helped by having an anti Enid Blyton mother so I didn't even know about Big Ears as a character.

smarties have the answer to what?
coo all these things life is so complicated now!

That’s a relief, thanks 😅

i see that now, thank you for the correction. No "Roger the cabin boy" either. Fiction becoming reality - in my old head.

It doesn't work in my accent, they don't rhyme. Probably same in others.
I knew because someone told me but I wouldn't have guessed it

I’m listening to Oliver Twist on audiobook at the moment and there’s a character who is regularly referred to as Master Bates which is a little off-putting. I’ve read it before but it feels more noticeable in audiobook form.

Some people are making more of this than there actually is!

Wallace is the person who chose Shaun's name; and in Wallace's accent, 'Shaun' and 'shorn' are pronounced identically. That's it!

Shaun the sheep I got straight away. It took me years to get Aladin Sane even though I was a massive Bowie fan. I think I had to read a biography before it clicked!

I had a colleague who was quite affable and generally managed to get away with doing as little work as possible. We once had to work together and he told me ‘ok so you’re going to do the up stream work and I’ll do the downstream work’. At the time I didn’t have a clue what he meant as he often spoke in phrases that made little sense to me. About 10 years later, it suddenly hit me what that meant ie I was to do the hard work. Likely obvious to everyone but not to me at the time! No idea why it randomly popped into my head a decade later 😂

Oh thanks. That's the bit I was missing!

Same here, and I’m almost 70! I’m not sure if I should be singing this to my 9 month old grandson!

People in books from former times also used to ejaculate frequently in a room full of people, as a normal part of their intercourse - and there was nothing rude about it whatsoever