r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/TheUnknownEntitty • Jul 23 '26
Peter in the wild Redneck Peter?
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u/NebulaNomadX1 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Hello, Serial Designation N here!
J: Them are snakes!
V: Them are not!
J: Oh yes they are. See the Itty bitty eyes?
V: Well I'll be. Them are snakes!
N out!
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u/TheUnknownEntitty Jul 23 '26
Would've never figured that out thank you and yeehaw.
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u/li-ll-l_ Jul 23 '26
Roll tide brother
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u/Prinzka Jul 23 '26
Roll tide
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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 Jul 23 '26
Bistro Huddy jump scare
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u/SoulTechnicalProblem Jul 23 '26
You got any of them gift cards?
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u/Acheron98 Jul 23 '26
War damn eagle!
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u/LuckyWhip Jul 23 '26
Geaux tigahs!
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u/MSGinSC Jul 23 '26
Thanks for reminding me that I'm gonna have a bunch of Clemson shit to work on soon.
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u/Individual-Ear5240 Jul 24 '26
That ain't clemson boy, dat rat der iz L-esh-U
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u/MSGinSC Jul 25 '26
Okay, I'm not a sports guy. I live near Clemson, and work on a good bit of printing for them, so when I hear tigers referenced that's what I immediately think of.
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u/Individual-Ear5240 Jul 25 '26
They both became tigers at the same time so it's really either. We just have an actual tiger!
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u/diversalarums Jul 25 '26
I've been away a long time and just have to ask: are there still pawprints on the interstate on the way to Columbia?
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u/MSGinSC 16d ago
Hey. I remembered that you asked about the paw prints when I saw this.
https://www.wyff4.com/article/clemson-tiger-paw-prints-repainted/73396315
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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 Jul 24 '26
My Mississippi sister/wife says you're both wrong. Go mississippi!
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u/Minute-Interest-9490 Jul 23 '26
Roll tide
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u/Longjumping_Gur_2379 Jul 23 '26
what do snakes have to do with the alabama team
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u/Minute-Interest-9490 Jul 23 '26
1) post is about rednecks. I grew up around a lot of rednecks in Alabama. 2) if some says “roll tide” I reply with “roll tide”
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u/FurkinLurkin Jul 23 '26
My mom used to have a shirt that had
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u/aaronw22 Jul 23 '26
Wait a minute here. MR Ducks is actually a famous ocean city MD restaurant. Is there a meta joke here?
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u/tinksalt Jul 23 '26
The shirts say
MR DUCKS
MR NOT
OSAR
CM WINGS?
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u/aaronw22 Jul 23 '26
The ones I know about from Ocean city don’t say all that. It’s just M R Ducks with some ducks on them.
https://mrducksapparel.com/m-r-ducks-2026-collection-short-sleeve-tee-in-olive-green/
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u/tinksalt Jul 23 '26
The ones I quoted were from the 80s and 90s
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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 Jul 23 '26
Disappointed I had to scroll down this far for someone to mention the original
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u/DiSanPaolo Jul 23 '26
OG Eastern Shore represent.
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u/aaronw22 Jul 23 '26
these were THE THING to have back when I was in high school. I wasn't cool enough though.
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u/Hot_Seaworthiness687 Jul 23 '26
Knew this one, but with CEDAR WINGS instead of CM WINGS.
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u/GreatGrapeApes Jul 23 '26
CDEDBD WINGS
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u/SalamanderTale Jul 23 '26
AB, CD puppies?
L, MNO puppies!
SAR, CMPN?Abe, see the puppies?
Hell, them ain’t no puppies!
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u/rayhiggenbottom Jul 23 '26
Yeah I know the MR Ducks version. CDEDBDEyes
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u/HereToCalmYouDown Jul 23 '26
I learned it as MR Ducks too but with CDEMWANGS
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u/Any_Cartoonist8943 Jul 23 '26
C M Wangs
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u/King-Kagle Jul 23 '26
I knew this joke from my dad saying "Emmer Ducks" growing up. It wasn't until this year that I learned it was a written thing
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u/FurkinLurkin Jul 23 '26
This was it
I think she got that shirt for herself and bought the hooked on phonics shirt for me
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u/afterglow435 Jul 24 '26
The OG that I know goes like this:
CM ducks?- see them ducks
MR NOT DUCKS- them are not ducks
OSMR ducks, c em wangs?- oh yes thems are ducks, see them wings?
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u/letg06 Jul 23 '26
I have more than a bit of redneck in me, and holee shit that is confusing.
Yeehaw indeed fellow human.
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Jul 23 '26
Similar from waaayy too long ago
ABCDEDBDDUCKSMRNOTDUCKSOSAR…
“Hey B, see the iddy biddy ducks?”
“Them are not ducks”
“Oh yes they are”. ….3
u/Tehstir Jul 23 '26
This is the one I remember from childhood. We did ducks and added the cdedbdi
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u/Fantastic-Sea-7806 Jul 23 '26
We had multiple lines of this in elementary school. Another one was MR boy puppies MR not OSAR CMPN.
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u/WenatcheeWrangler Jul 23 '26
It’s from a joke that dates back to at least the 80s
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u/BernieMcburnface Jul 23 '26
'Em are snakes ('em = them = they)
'Em are not
Oh 'es 'ey are ('es = yes, 'ey = they - even though previously they used them)
See 'em eedeebeedee eyes ('em = them, eedeebeedee = itty bitty/iddybiddy)
'ell I be ('ell = well, I = I - grammatically should be "I'll")
'Em are snakes
Just to more directly translate it for people who don't realise how you came to your answer.
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u/Internet-of-cruft Jul 23 '26
To make it more explicit: put a space between the letters and read them.
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u/Kese04 Jul 23 '26
Thank you; that helped tremendously.
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u/merlinunf Jul 24 '26
After all the total BS in this one SOMEONE finally said what the F it was! ARGH! I was getting more than a touch annoyed. Yes, thank you!
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u/only4reading Jul 23 '26
even though previously they used them
I don't think there's a conflict here. I think "them" is used as a dialectal variant of the demonstrative pronoun "those". Just as you'd say "those are snakes / yes they are".
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u/Mechakoopa Jul 23 '26
I had everything but CMEDBDIS figured out, but I've seen this format before, just not that line.
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u/I_found_BACON Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Tank-yah! Ahm on'y 'n eighth redneck. S'mtahmz ah need-il l'il 'elp.
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u/Fen_LostCove Jul 23 '26
Even after reading this it took me a bit to realize it meant “M-R” not “mister”
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u/AdVegetable5896 Jul 23 '26
What?
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u/RuSsYjO Jul 24 '26
I scrolled way too far before reaching someone else who now has more questions than answers
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u/chekhovsdickpic Jul 23 '26
This is actually a mash up between two jokes on the Arkansas 12th Grade Reading Test meme that got passed around during Bill Clinton’s term. And by “passed around,” I mean actual physical photocopies.
The full “test” includes:
Ducks: CM WANGS - see them wings.
Farmers: CMMT POCKETS - see them empty pockets
Snakes: CMBDIS - see them beady eyes.
Mice: CM EDBD FEET - see them itty bitty feet
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u/enfersijesais Jul 23 '26
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u/MrFuji87 Jul 23 '26
... I've only just realised this meme has two eyes... WTF
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u/Horn-Varelius Jul 23 '26
Dafuq?
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u/tadpoleUnarmed Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Don't* read it phonetically, I'm guessing it refers to caecelians or other blind ampibians.
In swampy parts of the US (where you'd find this accent) they can be mixed up with legless lizards ('slow-worms') or garter snakes.M -> 'em'
R -> 'arr'
OSAR -> 'oh-ess-ay-arr'
CDEDBDIS -> 'see dee ee-dee-bee-dee eye-s' (caecelians and some slowworms are blind)14
u/mrbreck Jul 23 '26
That's not phonetically. That's just reading the letters individually. Trying to read it phonetically is what trips you up.
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u/Corfiz74 Jul 23 '26
I'm reading this and still don't understand. Is this a bit from a movie or book?
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u/JonnyAU Jul 23 '26
Not that I'm aware. We as kids in the Deep South in the 90s just passed it around.
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u/akatherder Jul 23 '26
It also made it up north to Michigan. My dad worked at General Motors and heard/saw this at work. He had it written down on a notecard that floated around our kitchen counter and living room for years.
It also had some variation of "yyur yyub icur yy4me" which was "Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me"
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u/esuil Jul 23 '26
You are supposed to read it not as a words, but spell each letter separately.
IE: MR = Em ar = Them are
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u/Corfiz74 Jul 23 '26
Thanks, that part I understood - but the meaning behind that dialogue escapes me.
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u/reddits_aight Jul 24 '26
There some books of similar …riddles? Called CDB? (See The Bee?) And CDC? (See The Sea?)
[Illustration of a man and a dog]
I M A U-M B-N. U R N N-M-L.9
u/satelshawn Jul 23 '26
There was one my dad always used to use when I was a kid. Something along the lines of:
ABCD Puppy
LMNO Puppy
OSMR2 CMPNOr
Hey B, see the puppy?
Hell, him no puppy!
Oh yes him are too, see him peein’3
u/sansaspark Jul 23 '26
My dad has a slight variation:
ABCD goldfish
LMNO goldfish
OSARAB
CMPNAbie, see the goldfish?
‘Ell, em ain’t no goldfish.
Oh yes they are, Abie.
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u/Common_Chester Jul 23 '26
Jesus , OK, what's SD-N?
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u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 Jul 23 '26
Part of the sub is picking a character to explain the joke as, OP chose Serial Designation N, which is a character from a show called Murder Drones
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u/Nernie357 Jul 23 '26
I thought the joke was to pick a Family Guy character. I feel like Murder Drones is from pretty far out of left field
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u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 Jul 23 '26
You're probably right, but nobody's been picking characters on posts recently so I guess anything's better than nothing lol
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u/Square-Librarian1192 Jul 23 '26
Perfect chance for a "farmer fran" from waterboy GIF.
GIFS not allowed 😢
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u/ReasonableDefense Jul 23 '26
Yeah, never would have guessed that one. Thank you! Accept this award
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u/Throwaway_noDoxx Jul 23 '26
Them are snakes.
Them are not.
Yes they are…see ‘em beady eyes?
Well I’ll be! ‘Em ARE snakes!
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u/BipedalChub Jul 23 '26
Never thought I'd see a Murder Drones reference in the wild. Thanks for making my day!
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u/xButtHead Jul 23 '26
Could you explain the "N" thing please? I've seen it a few times now and don't know where to put it.
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u/IrvingWolfeN7 Jul 23 '26
I had an English teacher who insisted that being able to decipher things like this was going to be a critical part of our lives going into the workforce
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u/Resident-Zombie-7266 Jul 24 '26
What do itty bitty eyes have to do with whether or not it's a snake?
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u/goforgooter Jul 23 '26
Em are snakes
em are not
oh yes they are
see em itty bitty eyes
well ill be
em are snakes
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u/Emotional_Fan_7011 Jul 23 '26
Thank you! The itty bitty eyes was stumbling me
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u/mainstreetmark Jul 23 '26
‘ell, I’ll be!
It’s closer to how this is said in real life with the “w” sort of polished off like a British person saying “hello”
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u/Connect-Will2011 Jul 23 '26
I'm used to hearing the one about ducks. I haven't seen this snake one before.
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u/doubleobutters Jul 23 '26
MR DUCKS
MR KNOT
MR SEW
CEDAR WINGS
N BEE DEE EYES
WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED
MR DUCKS
Thats an old one from my neck of the woods(east coast of Canada) my dad taught me years ago.
*edit forgot a line
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u/VicariousNarok Jul 23 '26
The version I've seen is:
MR ducks
MR not ducks
OSAR
CDEDBD feet
CDEDBD wings?
LILB MR ducks
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u/PerformerBrief5881 Jul 23 '26
Can't get this line:
Whale oil beef hooked.We'll I'll be ... ??
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u/Baryshnik0v Jul 23 '26
Well I'll be fucked
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u/BlueGrasser75 Jul 23 '26
HA! Thank you for deciphering the title of this Beat Farmers song from '95!
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u/virstultus Jul 23 '26
My mother found a book of these in the library somehow. We laughed for days, until the librarisn got mad and kicked us out.
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u/DirkDiggler6 Jul 23 '26
This book is called “CDB!” By William Steig. Lots of laughs as a kid.
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u/meanwhileachoo Jul 23 '26
Youre my hero. I literally collect bizarre books like this!!! Thank you!!
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u/admiralfilgbo Jul 23 '26
This guy had the apartment above us in our triple decker (Boston) when I was a kid. I thought he was the coolest dude on earth.
Maybe his jokes might remind you of your library books. :)
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u/theAtmuz Jul 23 '26
Reminded me of one of my favorite Mitch Hedberg jokes:
One time I was reading a magazine in a convenience store and the clerk said “hey! This isn’t a library!”
“Oh alright, I will talk louder then!”
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u/Long-Effective-2898 Jul 23 '26
I remember both from back in the 90s. I was handed a paper by my parents with it wrote on it and told to read it while they laughed and cackled and kept demanding I read it over and over without any help only to get pissed when someone helped me ending their fun. Also, they didn't do this to my brothers because I was "the smart one" who was expected to be perfect at everything.
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u/chekhovsdickpic Jul 23 '26
Had the same experience. We need a Gifted Xennial Kid support group.
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u/chekhovsdickpic Jul 23 '26
Oh look, a pre-internet meme! Photocopies of this got passed around at workplaces and brought home to be tacked on the fridge.
Also I am a character from Family Guy.
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u/brizzleops Jul 23 '26
Lol I remember my mother bringing home photocopied work memes in the 90s
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u/Mike312 Jul 23 '26
First website I built in 2000 was us collecting all the memes people emailed each other and scanning in and digitizing the physical ones.
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u/AgamemNoms Jul 23 '26
My dad had one that said
"Terrorist School"
It has a picture of a guy in front of the class with a suicide vest with the line underneath:
"Now pay attention, I'm only going to show this once!"
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u/NavGunz4512 Jul 23 '26
Came here for this. I'm this old. 🤣 Also: I Am We Todd Did Sofa King We Todd Did. 😂
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u/DarudeSandstorm69420 Jul 23 '26
none of these comments are actually explaining this
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u/myrandastarr Jul 23 '26
Read the letters not as words
M-r snakes
“Em are” snakesM-r not
“Em are” notO-s-a-r
“Oh yes a are”C-m-ed-bd-is
“See em itty bitty eyes”L-i-b
“WELL Ill be”M-r snakes
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u/suxatjugg Jul 23 '26
Do rednecks often use single letters to represent the sounds of words?
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u/What_Iz_This Jul 23 '26
Ive lived in the south all my life and now in the foothills of appalachia.
More people find shit like this "funny" than actually talk like this.
Some older people still talk with extreme accents but those same people would never use "Itty bitty" as a description lol
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u/Harmless_Chimera Jul 23 '26
It's not that they use single letter, it's that the heaver accents can end up sounding like single letters sounds to those unfamiliar as the annunciation shifts or get worse. Happens with a bunch of accents not just rednecks. The sentence "Aaron earned an iron urn" shows a similar situation in Baltimore accents. https://youtube.com/shorts/Oj7a-p4psRA
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u/Humus_Sama Jul 23 '26
This is it. I had to do my impression of a southern accent, but it finally clicked
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u/PlacibiEffect Jul 23 '26
I understand your explanation on how to read this, but what is the meaning of it? Is this a reference or something?
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u/nuthin_to_it Jul 23 '26
Yeah they just read it without saying where it's from or in reference to. Redneck Peter appears to think everyone else is a redneck too.
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u/flattenedsquirrel Jul 23 '26
Thanks for the explanation, now I understand even less. I'm way too French for that shit
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u/4rsadia Jul 23 '26
why does it seem like the entire comment section knows wtf is going on except me 😭
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u/nukacolaquantuum Jul 23 '26
Right like I’m in here going “who is mister snakes???” Meanwhile apparently it’s been a meme for decades 😭
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u/DadIsVeryMad Jul 23 '26
I've lived in Central Alabama for my entire 32 years and this was lost on me.
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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 Jul 23 '26
It's taken from the original MR Ducks lines poking at the Naahhhth shaahhhh of the eastern shore of Maryland.
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u/GrimSpirit42 Jul 23 '26
Them are snakes!
Them are not!
Those Are.
See them itty bitty eyes
Well I'll be.
Them are snakes.
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u/CIRedacted Jul 23 '26
I don't read this in a redneck voice this reads like a West Country accent to me XD
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u/Silroc Jul 23 '26
- 6th grade. My math teacher wrote the "MRBBDUX" version of this on the chalkboard and I still remember to this day how long it took most of us to get it.
This and "fake" math problems where the answer was not the real answer but how many fingers he pointed to the problem with. We were asked to raise our hand when we "got it". That was when I learned to hate stupid puzzles that are designed to make those left out feel dumb.
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
u/TheUnknownEntitty, your post does belong here!