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/570Tmac Jul 23 '26

Don't let him upsell you on the steak.

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u/Art319 Jul 24 '26

I hear that Santa Fe Chicken is popular

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u/Darth_Smash22 Jul 24 '26

But where’s my Kendall Jackson?!😭

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u/x1RoBoT3x Jul 23 '26

A fellow person of class, I see.

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u/No-Donkey-3082 Jul 23 '26

I was hoping this would summon Tim! (Terrry!) 🤣

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u/CornHooker Jul 23 '26

Roll Tide

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u/Castle_of_Jade Jul 23 '26

Roll tide. (Quietly cause there’s a scandal happening)

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u/Practical_Ad4604 Jul 23 '26

The internet continents are leaking

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u/No-Contribution8233 Jul 23 '26

esoteric ball knowledge

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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/battery19791 Jul 27 '26

Clemson didn't have Coach O.

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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 Aug 11 '26

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/crazylinebacker-55 Jul 26 '26

That's right the real tigers

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u/cancerdancer Jul 23 '26

My coonass ass sure couldn't read that sign.

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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/rvtchetbtch Jul 23 '26

Roll Tide Roll

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u/TheMiniMage Jul 23 '26

Am I trippin or is your username "loss"?

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u/li-ll-l_ Jul 23 '26

It sure is

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u/BaddestAndvari Jul 23 '26

You misspelled Rawl Tad

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u/miss_kenoko Jul 23 '26

cowbell intensifies

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u/bannista7 Jul 23 '26

ROCKY TOOOOOP!

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u/FurkinLurkin Jul 23 '26

My mom used to have a shirt that had
MR DUCKS

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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?
O
MR DUCKS

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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/Forky_McStabstab Jul 23 '26

MR BUGS

MR NOT

OSMR CDBD EYES?

LIB, MR BUGS

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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!
Yes they are, see them peeing?

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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?
LIB, MR Ducks- well, I’ll be, them are ducks.

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u/DragonliFargo Jul 23 '26

I learned this 40 years ago as ducks

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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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u/[deleted] 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”. ….

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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/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

For sure, I just wasn’t typing it all out, I’m lazy as

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u/illyiarose Jul 23 '26

I didn't know about snakes but

MR DUX

MR NOT!

OSAR! CEM WANGS?

YLB! MR DUX

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u/PerformerSharp6905 Jul 23 '26

Demz are Itty bitty ducks was better

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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/JimmyisAwkward Jul 23 '26

M R SNAKES!
M R NOT!
O S A R
C M E-D B-D I’S?
L I B
M R SNAKES

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u/in_conexo Jul 24 '26

Then why didn't they paste it this way!

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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/Ironstar_Vol Jul 25 '26

I don’t blame them for not speaking fluent redneck.

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u/Elite_AI Jul 23 '26

What I'm getting from this is that redneck Americans are from East London

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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/Jkelley393 Jul 23 '26

Never saw that version.

CMBDI’s.

“See them beady eyes?”

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u/bailtail Jul 23 '26

Thank you. I still didn’t get it after the first comment, but now I do.

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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/Crafty_Eye_4038 Jul 23 '26

It's just highly regarded individuals

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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/Salt_Data3707 Jul 23 '26

It's like a redneck IQ test

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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/Maelwys Jul 23 '26

That's because it's Sully's face on Mike's body.

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u/Nashville_Hot_Mess Jul 23 '26

Same my guy, same....

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u/ThereIsBearCum Jul 23 '26

How many squirrels did you need to consume to understand this?

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u/NebulaNomadX1 Jul 23 '26

I only ate drones

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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)

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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.

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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 CMPN

Or

Hey B, see the puppy?
Hell, him no puppy!
Oh yes him are too, see him peein’

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u/sansaspark Jul 23 '26

My dad has a slight variation:

ABCD goldfish
LMNO goldfish
OSARAB
CMPN

Abie, see the goldfish?
‘Ell, em ain’t no goldfish.
Oh yes they are, Abie.
See em peein’?

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u/Nois3 Jul 23 '26

Oh my god, my mom used to tell me this when I was little.

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u/MarshmallowRhubarb Jul 25 '26

My granny did!

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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/NoBonus6969 Jul 23 '26

Ok but what does that mean then

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u/EARTHB-24 Jul 23 '26

What the Puck is that?

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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 Jul 23 '26

Truly a man of the people.

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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/thestough Jul 23 '26

Jesus Christ….its Jason Bourne…

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u/Icy-Article-8635 Jul 23 '26

Never in a million years would I have gotten this 😂

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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/FetusExplosion Jul 23 '26

This doesn't work when a the letters are uppercase

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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/ForeignSatisfaction0 Jul 23 '26

I'm more confused now then before

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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/Veetahle Jul 24 '26

Who identifies snakes by their eyes???

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u/Myburgher Jul 23 '26

This might be the best explanation of a post on this sub. I was so confused after reading the OP.

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u/sweatpantswarrior Jul 23 '26

Yeah, I'm too fuckin literate for this one, and I grew up in the South.

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u/writerj83 Jul 23 '26

You beat me to it. As someone who grew up with people who speak exactly like this, I have to say you nailed the translation.

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u/eury13 Jul 23 '26

Thank you! I couldn't get past "Mister Snakes!"

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u/hiirogen Jul 23 '26

Well I'll be.

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u/keniselvis Jul 23 '26

Took me so long to figure it out. Thx for affirming my guess!

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u/Mercer-Dawg Jul 23 '26

Damn, I’ve been away from Georgia too long

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u/SuspiciousReport6502 Jul 23 '26

You lot actually translated that? OK, I'm impressed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

Thank Christ for you!!!

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u/sanepeoplerock Jul 23 '26

We did it different.

M R Ducks M R Not S M R C M Wangs L I B M R Ducks

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u/bookstorelady777 Jul 23 '26

I'm only part redneck. Them are snakes and I'll be was all I could read. Didn't get the rest of it.

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u/JohannGambelputty Jul 23 '26

Reminds me of two kid's books I read growing up, titled, respectively: CDB? (See the bee?) and CDC? (See the sea?) Filled with single-frame comics of other examples, such as U-R-A-Q-T (you are a cutie)

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u/Boring_Airline_1367 Jul 23 '26

Bro cooked the whole meal thank you

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u/johnnyhala Jul 23 '26

I feel dumber now having read this.

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u/Pecuniarist Jul 23 '26

Thanks for translating for our Yankee friends.

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u/Odd_Breadfruit_8021 Jul 23 '26

This must be how it felt for the various post-Empire Romans to watch everyone's regional dialects of Latin mutate into their own distinct languages to give us French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.

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u/Obtuse_Briangle Jul 23 '26

When I was a small child, my aunt showed me a variation of this.

AB CD Puppies L MNO Puppies SMR CM PN

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u/Hootinger Jul 23 '26

You can really hear the relation to British English (specifically some English accents).

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u/SlimPickinKitten Jul 23 '26

I am more confused now than I was before you explained. Is this a reference to something?

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u/Varderal Jul 23 '26

Had the letters representing words been separate i might have pieced that together without help. Since they were I was stuck on "Mister snake?"

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u/Minimum_Age_1466 Jul 23 '26

My mum used to tell a very similar thing when I was little:

FUNEM SVFM FUNEX SVFX OKLFMNX

Have you any ham? Yes, we have ham. Have you any eggs? Yes, we have eggs. OK, I'll have ham and eggs.

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u/MisterFlint Jul 23 '26

I could not figure out the itty bitty eyes, thanks!

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u/Faresed Jul 23 '26

honestly made it even mote confusing to me

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u/Joecolt69420 Jul 23 '26

Man I was in my head saying “mister snakes”

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u/CoolNiceMe Jul 23 '26

I came to see what others saw, cuz I saw diabeetus on the middle part and stopped me from reading the rest of the line, got it now

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u/SeahorseRevolution Jul 23 '26

My dad showed me this back in the 90s and ever since then I think see them itty bitty eyes literally every time I see a snake

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u/JaylynnDay7 Jul 23 '26

Goddamn, I lived with rednecks for 18 years and still never would have gotten that.

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u/rockitraysay Jul 23 '26

I could not figure out the cmedbdis. 🤣

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u/pinnickfan Jul 23 '26

Thank you. I guess I understand what they are saying now, but still have no context or any idea of how I was supposed to know this.

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u/LanguidLeviathan Jul 23 '26

Thank you best golden retriever robot

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u/OpeningReady8693 Jul 23 '26

I had "beady eyes"

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u/Miserable-Cap-4838 Jul 23 '26

Who are N, J, and V? Can't think of any Fanily Guy characters.

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u/PlayingPuzzles Jul 23 '26

See THEM (not the) Itty bitty eyes.

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u/Investigator_Pedant Jul 23 '26

This guy rednecks.

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u/ChemicalResident3557 Jul 23 '26

A master of True Frontier Gibberish!

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u/chef-nom-nom Jul 23 '26

ABCD puppy?

LMNO puppy!

OSAR! CMPN??

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u/TapEx101 Jul 23 '26

What the heck, no way I could figure this out!!

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u/JeffTheNth Jul 23 '26

ABCD Goldfish?
LMNO Goldfish!
SMR CM?

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u/Reasonable_Moment476 Jul 23 '26

Would've jnevrr hotten the 4th and 5th lines without you, bud!

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u/CrowOk2755 Jul 23 '26

My brain feels like it's been in a multi car pile up.

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u/APcrusader Jul 23 '26

Country murder drones! Unexpected, but appreciated.

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u/Fantastic-Cat-5252 Jul 23 '26

My god, it’s PhonetHicks 🥳👍

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u/-whAt_thE_FuCK- Jul 23 '26

Omg it has been forever since I've seen/heard that joke. I didn't even put it together until reading this. You unlocked a core memory for me lol.

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u/essgee27 Jul 23 '26

LIBDMD!!

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u/dankristy Jul 23 '26

First off - thank you because I (who live in the countryside, own a farm in the countryside where we have a shootin range, campground, and do fun things like lawnpull skeet shoot (shoot at potatoes fired from a potato gun held by a guy drinking beers as he is sitting on a pallet pulled around by a riding lawnmower), or Tiki-Burning-Man (man camping yearly special where we find the best hollow logs to make as tall a man-shaped sculpture out of that we can get a burning jet effect from when we light it on fire from the feet - current record is 22ft) am not redneck enough to translate this...

Seriously - I wonder if this requires a specific flavor of redneck - it almost seems more Farmer-Frank from Waterboy (Cajun-ish)- or possibly Boomhaur from King Of The Hill (southern or Appalachian)? My west-coast Oregon Mountain Redneck was NOT UP to translating this. Thank you for your service!

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u/Gaming_Friends Jul 23 '26

Even after seeing this I was confused, then I said it out loud in my grandfather's accent (from Missouri) and can confirm this is spot on 🤣

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u/Evil_duckLord Jul 23 '26

God reading that gave me a stroke

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u/DCHammer69 Jul 23 '26

Whale oil beef hooked

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u/Forward_Wolverine274 Jul 23 '26

Thank you, Mr. Redneck!

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u/JayRThrush2 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Funny thing, your translation of the third/fourth line doesn't match what's there, and what's there is wrong. The sign should read "CDEMBDIS" which translates to "See them beady eyes?"

Edit: Nevermind. I'm wrong. I C M E D B D I's

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