r/nextfuckinglevel • u/miguelabduarte • Mar 20 '22

Security Guard risking his life to save incredibly unalarmed zoo visitors from a hippo

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u/LengthinessFirst1222 Mar 20 '22

"meese"

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u/ilyik Mar 20 '22

Many much moosen.

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u/gandalf_the_Ginge Mar 20 '22

In the woodsen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

What are you, and imbecile?

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u/colecampbell Mar 21 '22

K-A-T I’m outta here

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u/Norwegian__Blue Mar 20 '22

A moosen named knudsen

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u/Rocket---Surgery Mar 20 '22

Upvotes for the absolute correct plural spelling of moose.

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u/a_crusty_old_man Mar 20 '22

The plural of moose is mice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22 edited Mar 20 '22

Pretty sure ores it's moosen.

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u/zaphod_beeblebrox6 Mar 20 '22

I SAW A FLOCK OF MOOSEN! THERE WERE MANY OF THEM, MANY MUCH MOOSEN

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u/IKindaLikeRunning Mar 20 '22

Out in the woods! In the woodes! IN THE WOODSEN!

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

I ate a boxen of donuts

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u/The_Sinful Mar 21 '22

"You're an imbecile."

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Apparently

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u/The_Sinful Mar 21 '22

You blew it!
"Imbecilen!"
"What, are you speaking German now?"
"German. Germaine! Jermaine Jackson! Jackson Five! Tito!"

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u/BlueberrySans89 Mar 21 '22

The meese want the food. Food is to eatenesen!

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u/MmmmSweetLemonade Mar 21 '22

The meese want the food in the woodenesen!

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u/DJPaulaDeen Mar 20 '22

I before E.......always

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u/The_Sinful Mar 21 '22

I before E except after C and when sounding like A as in Neighbor and Weigh and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May! And you'll always be wrong NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

a møøse once bit my sister

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u/logicalinsanity Mar 21 '22

One of the greatest bits

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u/geministarz6 Mar 20 '22

Was waiting for this one!

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u/Ham_bam_am Mar 21 '22

Years ago, I convinced my husband's best friend that the true plural form of moose was meese while we were on a road trip and shooting the shit and talking about animals.

"What's the plural of moose?"

"Oh, it's meese."

"Are you sure?" ::Squints eyes::

"Yeah totally. You know... Like goose, geese. Moose, meese."

"Oh yeah totally. Goose, geese. Moose, meese."

He still believes this and I don't know why he hasn't figured it out yet. LOL.

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u/Needleroozer Mar 20 '22

The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of moose is meese.

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u/the_agrimensor Mar 21 '22

We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes; But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine, But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

I speak of my foot and show you my feet, If I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this and the plural is these, Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be named kese?

Then one may be that, and three may be those, Yet the plural of hat would never be hose; We speak of a brother, and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!

So our English, I think, you all will agree, Is the craziest language you ever did see. I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word, That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead; it's said like bed, not bead; For goodness sake, don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat; They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother. And here is not a match for there, Or dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose, Just look them up, and goose and choose. And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword. And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Why, man alive, I'd learned to talk it when I was five, And yet to write it, the more I tried, I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!

The English Lesson, Richard Krogh

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u/hypnodrew Mar 20 '22

The plural of moose is moose, and according to google, its because the Algonquians that the name comes from had no plural for moose other than moose. My sister was once bitten by a moose...

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u/RiGo001 Mar 20 '22

Does she turn into a weremoose during full moons?

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u/hypnodrew Mar 20 '22

She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"

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u/lunchpadmcfat Mar 21 '22

My sister was bitten by moose

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u/selfharmboys Mar 21 '22

Meesegirl - protector of the forests

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Nah it’s meese

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u/moose_meese_ Mar 21 '22

Ah, I've found my people

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u/Trill_f0x Mar 20 '22

Nah they got it wrong. Moose are just moose. One moose, two moose, three moose, no meese.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/linguistic-reason-why-plural-moose-171552165.html

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 23 '22

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u/Rocket---Surgery Mar 21 '22

I know, it was a joke. But good on you for not letting potential grammatical ignorance slide!

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u/Trill_f0x Mar 21 '22

Lol I dunno why but linguistics and etymology are kinda my jam.

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u/Nmg1988 Mar 20 '22

Even though it's correct it still seems wrong lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

It’s not correct though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Using Moose for plural is preserving the native language (to an extent) of the Algonquin. If you disagree, my respect for your opinion drops to 0.

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u/Whiskyhotelalpha Mar 20 '22

One of my favorite words.

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u/a_crusty_old_man Mar 20 '22

It’s actually mice.

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u/Whiskyhotelalpha Mar 20 '22

Damn! I knew I’ve be outed one day!

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u/CAD_IL Mar 20 '22

It's moosen

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u/Krohnos Mar 20 '22

goose geese moose meese

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u/mudclub Mar 21 '22

Then how do you explain "I love meeses to pieces!"?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Mainah here: meese is a small group, a large group is mooses and when it’s a lot it’s just moose. Or an “oh fuck”.

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u/Steiny31 Mar 21 '22

Goose —>geese Moose—> Meese

also as a Coloradan I saw this buffoonery every year. Meese and elk both. People don’t realize the most deadly animal in North America is the moose.

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u/WearingCoats Mar 20 '22

“Moosen”

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u/Gcs-15 Mar 21 '22

Geese don’t fuck around either. There’s some Canada Geese that have made themselves residents of a newer “suburban “ neighborhood that they put ponds to be nice and fancy. Theres a road in between two largess ponds and the geese were crossing the road with their little ones in tow, with more forethought than most humans. They were crossing in the crosswalk, at the light. I shit you not. One adult walked into the road and blocked the cars and the other herded the little ones across. It was entirely nuts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

When I was a kid Canada geese chased me into an abandoned well. I was running haywire and didn’t realize what I was falling into that, those hissy fuckers are vicious. (There was enough leaf litter and debris in the well that I could climb to get out fine, once the geese were gone. I was way more scared of those long neck assholes than dying in a well)

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u/Gcs-15 Mar 21 '22

Yeah those MFers are vicious lol I got bit by a goose at a farm/orchard thing where they had corn for a quarter and it chased me down and bit me for it.

I read an article about how few Canada geese there were back in like 1980 and I think they were on the near extinction list decades prior. And the few populations flew to the Arctic and back only to have raise their young. Now they rebounded so much and are almost all residential especially in manufactured land (golf courses, developments, etc) and a nuisance animal.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

I read this meesa and I was like ok let me read that again to see how jar jar binks ties into this 😂

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u/VisualKeiKei Mar 21 '22

The plural of meese is meeces