1y ago

4 June 2024

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Sent this to my wife that's a speech and language pathologist who will without a doubt not laugh but rather answer the question haha.
Edit: called it lmao
- This only adds another layer to the joke. Beautiful.
Reminds me of monster house:
Girl: "look! That must be the uvula"
Guy: "ooooooh, so it's a girl house"
Girl: confused look
- Always pops into mind when a uvula is mentioned.
The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen
"Gaumen" is the roof of the mouth (palate).
And a "Zäpfchen" is a small "Zapfen", which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an "Eiszapfen" and a pine cone is a "Tannenzapfen".
It's like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃
- Japanese usually does similar stuff. It's the "mouth cover hang" in Japanese 口蓋垂
It's the, the, whatchumacallit... snaps tongue the uvulva! I'm sure of it.
- Correct. Uvulva. You get 50 points. That first U makes all the difference.
  
  Awww. U make a difference too
  
  It's uvula tho
- I was going to say, I know the answer, but was not sure I could spell it correctly.
  
  I'm just too got-dang smart. Built different, y'know.
Wait is this not common knowledge? That's what the comic seems to imply
- I'd bet this comic is a large part of why it's more common knowledge now. It's the reason I looked it up as a kid.
- It seems more common now than when the comic was new
Uvula.
I learned about the uvula once in my 20s when I drank and partied too much. Turns out I snore when i drink and when you snore you dehydrate your already dehydrated self. My uvula was swollen. The doctor (I was living in a country where health care was easy to access) sort of laughed and told me to drink water and reminded me I'm not superhuman.
Not recommended btw.
- I was living in a country where health care was easy to access
  Flexing on USA here.
  
  Yeah to be fair I'm american so I've seen it from both sides.
Reminds me of a little joke—
Knock knock…
- Who's there?
  
  Bab’s uvula…
  
  Not OP
Gary Larson is amazing. He's in his 70's and apparently still publishing new work like this every day! Good for him!
- I love how every post here has this comment now.
  
  My comment is from 1992. I just re-posted it today because Lemmy didn't exist back then.
I always remember it because there is a Green Day song: 'Bab's Uvula Who?' Teen me was like, wtf mate? Apparently it's taken from SNL from before I was born 🙈
One of several things I learned from Monster House.
Courage hangy-ball
Cardi B in shambles
- I'm pretty sure it's Cardi B that you're trying to reference.
  
  God you're right, fixed.
Uvavu.
- Eranu
It's the Vulvula obviously.

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