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Don't worry, it took me years to figure out that "South Park, Bigger Longer and Uncut" was a double entendre.
by genter 3y ago
Don't worry, it took me years to figure out that "South Park, Bigger Longer and Uncut" was a double entendre.
- xatax 3y agoFor me, it was the Blink-182 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, I didn't get the masturbation pun for that one until like three years ago; it always seemed like a pretty innocuous title until someone laughed when I mentioned it.
- BytesAndGears 3y agoWow I’ve listened to that album since I was a teenager and still never figured that out until right now
- gskye 3y agoWow. One of my favorite albums from my youth, I never got this until you just mentioned it!
- m463 3y ago"If you see Kay, will you tell her that I love her?"...
- rightbyte 3y agoIs there a word play in the title I am missing or what do you mean? :/
- CoastalCoder 3y agoBigger, longer, and uncut can all refer to a human penis, or to a movie release.
- Hikikomori 3y agoOnly human?
- CoastalCoder 3y agoI'm only aware of circumcision being performed on humans.
- rightbyte 3y agoNo way! How could I have not ... got that. All these years ...
- CoastalCoder 3y agoExceptional maturity and good, clean living, I'd wager. I, on the other hand, seem to still be 13 years old, decades later :)
- CoastalCoder 3y agoI was over 40 when I someone explained to me that "kaaa-nigt" was just a strange pronunciation of "knight".
- dylan604 3y agoYou must have not had a dad that would constantly ask for you to pass the butter kanife. As a kid, I just assumed bad dad joke about silent letters, but then I saw Holy Grail, and realized he was making a movie reference.
- johncessna 3y agoYeap, same, and even then it wasn't until I watched it with subtitles on.
- jhbadger 3y agoIn Geneva, Switzerland there are various buildings named after John Knox, the early Scot Protestant who lived for a while in Geneva after being exiled. When Knox is mentioned in America his name is normally pronounced "Nox" like Fort Knox is. But in Switzerland the K isn't silent, as I learned when visiting. It's weird when you think about it why English decided that K's at the start of words should be silent.
- nickserv 3y agoMore of an archaic pronunciation, although maybe emphasized for comedic effect. Orthography is typically more conservative than pronunciation, so when the language was written down, all letters were pronounced. Comparing cognates can be interesting. For example English 'night' with German 'nacht', the original English pronunciation was closer to the German one. Or 'knife' with French 'canif' (pronounced like it's spelled, for once).
- robhunter 3y agoI was today years old when I learned that.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoTheir game "The Fractured But Whole" is similar.