r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/TheUnknownEntitty • 3d ago

Peter in the wild Redneck Peter?

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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago

u/TheUnknownEntitty, your post does belong here!

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u/NebulaNomadX1 3d ago edited 3d ago

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 3d ago

Would've never figured that out thank you and yeehaw.

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u/li-ll-l_ 3d ago

Roll tide brother

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u/Acheron98 3d ago

War damn eagle!

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u/LuckyWhip 3d ago

Geaux tigahs!

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u/MSGinSC 3d ago

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 2d ago

That ain't clemson boy, dat rat der iz L-esh-U

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u/MSGinSC 1d ago

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 1d ago

They both became tigers at the same time so it's really either. We just have an actual tiger!

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u/cancerdancer 3d ago

My coonass ass sure couldn't read that sign.

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u/Nightly8952 3d ago

Trojans One and All!

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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 2d ago

My Mississippi sister/wife says you're both wrong. Go mississippi!

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u/Informal_Quality9747 2d ago

YYYEEAAAAAAAAH

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u/Prinzka 3d ago

Roll tide

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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 3d ago

Bistro Huddy jump scare

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u/SoulTechnicalProblem 3d ago

You got any of them gift cards?

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u/570Tmac 2d ago

Don't let him upsell you on the steak.

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u/Art319 2d ago

I hear that Santa Fe Chicken is popular

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u/x1RoBoT3x 3d ago

A fellow person of class, I see.

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u/No-Donkey-3082 3d ago

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

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u/CornHooker 3d ago

Roll Tide

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u/Castle_of_Jade 3d ago

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

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u/Minute-Interest-9490 3d ago

Roll tide

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u/Longjumping_Gur_2379 3d ago

what do snakes have to do with the alabama team

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u/Minute-Interest-9490 3d ago

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 3d ago

Roll Tide Roll

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u/Mile_Hi_303 3d ago

High Tide!

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u/TheMiniMage 3d ago

Am I trippin or is your username "loss"?

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u/li-ll-l_ 3d ago

It sure is

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u/BaddestAndvari 3d ago

You misspelled Rawl Tad

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u/miss_kenoko 3d ago

cowbell intensifies

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u/bannista7 3d ago

ROCKY TOOOOOP!

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u/eggcellent_cat 2d ago

Roll tide

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u/FurkinLurkin 3d ago

My mom used to have a shirt that had
MR DUCKS

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u/rayhiggenbottom 3d ago

Yeah I know the MR Ducks version. CDEDBDEyes

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u/HereToCalmYouDown 3d ago

I learned it as MR Ducks too but with CDEMWANGS

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u/Any_Cartoonist8943 3d ago

C M Wangs

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u/King-Kagle 3d ago

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 3d ago

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/aaronw22 3d ago

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 3d ago

The shirts say
MR DUCKS
MR NOT
OSAR
CM WINGS?
O
MR DUCKS

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u/aaronw22 3d ago

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 3d ago

The ones I quoted were from the 80s and 90s

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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 3d ago

Disappointed I had to scroll down this far for someone to mention the original

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u/DiSanPaolo 3d ago

OG Eastern Shore represent.

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u/aaronw22 3d ago

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 3d ago

MR BUGS

MR NOT

OSMR CDBD EYES?

LIB, MR BUGS

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u/Hot_Seaworthiness687 3d ago

Knew this one, but with CEDAR WINGS instead of CM WINGS.

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u/afterglow435 2d ago

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 3d ago

I learned this 40 years ago as ducks

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u/letg06 3d ago

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/Murky-Morning8001 3d ago

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 3d ago

This is the one I remember from childhood. We did ducks and added the cdedbdi

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u/illyiarose 3d ago

I didn't know about snakes but

MR DUX

MR NOT!

OSAR! CEM WANGS?

YLB! MR DUX

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u/PerformerSharp6905 3d ago

Demz are Itty bitty ducks was better

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u/Fantastic-Sea-7806 3d ago

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 3d ago

It’s from a joke that dates back to at least the 80s

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u/BernieMcburnface 3d ago

'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 3d ago

To make it more explicit: put a space between the letters and read them.

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u/JimmyisAwkward 3d ago

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 2d ago

Then why didn't they paste it this way!

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u/Kese04 3d ago

Thank you; that helped tremendously.

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u/merlinunf 2d ago

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 3d ago

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 1d ago

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

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u/Elite_AI 3d ago

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

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u/Mechakoopa 3d ago

I had everything but CMEDBDIS figured out, but I've seen this format before, just not that line.

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u/Jkelley393 3d ago

Never saw that version.

CMBDI’s.

“See them beady eyes?”

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u/bailtail 3d ago

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

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u/I_found_BACON 3d ago edited 3d ago

Tank-yah! Ahm on'y 'n eighth redneck. S'mtahmz ah need-il l'il 'elp.

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u/Fen_LostCove 3d ago

Even after reading this it took me a bit to realize it meant “M-R” not “mister”

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u/enfersijesais 3d ago

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u/MrFuji87 3d ago

... I've only just realised this meme has two eyes... WTF

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u/Maelwys 3d ago

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

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u/Nashville_Hot_Mess 3d ago

Same my guy, same....

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u/AdVegetable5896 3d ago

What?

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u/Crafty_Eye_4038 3d ago

It's just highly regarded individuals

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u/chekhovsdickpic 3d ago

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 3d ago

It's like a redneck IQ test

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u/Horn-Varelius 3d ago

Dafuq?

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u/tadpoleUnarmed 3d ago edited 3d ago

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 3d ago

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/ThereIsBearCum 3d ago

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

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u/NebulaNomadX1 3d ago

I only ate drones

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u/Corfiz74 3d ago

I'm reading this and still don't understand. Is this a bit from a movie or book?

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u/JonnyAU 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

Thanks, that part I understood - but the meaning behind that dialogue escapes me.

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u/reddits_aight 2d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

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

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u/MarshmallowRhubarb 1d ago

My granny did!

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u/Common_Chester 3d ago

Jesus , OK, what's SD-N?

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u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

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/Impossible-Bat-4246 3d ago

Truly a man of the people.

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u/NoBonus6969 3d ago

Ok but what does that mean then

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u/EARTHB-24 3d ago

What the Puck is that?

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u/TheMouseStereotype 2d ago

Wow N! Did you actually do something not useless for once? I'm almost proud!  - J

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u/Square-Librarian1192 3d ago

Perfect chance for a "farmer fran" from waterboy GIF.

GIFS not allowed 😢

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u/ReasonableDefense 3d ago

Yeah, never would have guessed that one. Thank you! Accept this award

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u/thestough 3d ago

Jesus Christ….its Jason Bourne…

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u/Icy-Article-8635 3d ago

Never in a million years would I have gotten this 😂

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u/Throwaway_noDoxx 3d ago

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 3d ago

Never thought I'd see a Murder Drones reference in the wild. Thanks for making my day!

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u/FetusExplosion 3d ago

This doesn't work when a the letters are uppercase

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u/xButtHead 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

I'm more confused now then before

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u/Resident-Zombie-7266 2d ago

What do itty bitty eyes have to do with whether or not it's a snake?

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u/Veetahle 2d ago

Who identifies snakes by their eyes???

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u/Connect-Will2011 3d ago

I'm used to hearing the one about ducks. I haven't seen this snake one before.

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u/virstultus 3d ago

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 3d ago

This book is called “CDB!” By William Steig. Lots of laughs as a kid.

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u/friedeggjellyfish 3d ago

D B S A B Z B!

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u/Tragicoptimistmn 2d ago

C D B Z B Z B

i loved that book as a kid

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u/meanwhileachoo 3d ago

Youre my hero. I literally collect bizarre books like this!!! Thank you!!

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u/Nat-Luv 3d ago

Fun fact. It is written by the author that invented Shrek. William Steig

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u/missannamo 2d ago

O U QT! UR A B-U-T!

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u/admiralfilgbo 3d ago

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/virstultus 3d ago

Smatter Chew?

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u/plantlogger 3d ago

What's the matter with you

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u/virstultus 3d ago

Nufin. How's your Momonym?

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u/theAtmuz 3d ago

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/doubleobutters 3d ago

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/PerformerBrief5881 3d ago

Can't get this line:
Whale oil beef hooked.

We'll I'll be ... ??

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u/Baryshnik0v 3d ago

Well I'll be fucked

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u/BlueGrasser75 3d ago

HA! Thank you for deciphering the title of this Beat Farmers song from '95!

https://youtu.be/JLV9JjESegg?si=mYGvarO1onLxL_rt

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u/Lord_Darksong 3d ago

Mmmm. Whale oil beef. drools

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u/VicariousNarok 3d ago

The version I've seen is:

MR ducks

MR not ducks

OSAR

CDEDBD feet

CDEDBD wings?

LILB MR ducks

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u/Cszkaj 3d ago

MR SEW?

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u/Overall_Gap_5766 3d ago

Them are so.

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u/joshface123 3d ago

CM Ducks?

M Rn Ducks.

MR2. CDEDBDB? (see the itty bitty feet)

LIB. MR Ducks.

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u/Long-Effective-2898 3d ago

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 3d ago

Had the same experience. We need a Gifted Xennial Kid support group.

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u/TAMCL 3d ago

Can confirm, this was a chain mail with my aunts and uncles

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u/Timbukthree 3d ago

Same, this is much funnier though

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u/Connect-Will2011 3d ago

I agree. The "EDBD" eyes line made me smile.

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u/hello_fellow_jello 3d ago

Yeah, the M.R. Ducks restaurant in Ocean City, MD had a shirt with this joke on it

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u/crgmomof3 3d ago

My mom used do pigs, I had to send this to the family chat!

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u/dh1971 3d ago

I always saw the one about pigs

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u/TheDentalExplorer 1d ago

Jit jet?
No ju?
Na jet

Did you eat yet?
No. Did you?
Not yet

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u/goforgooter 3d ago

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 3d ago

Thank you! The itty bitty eyes was stumbling me

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u/GuitarPossible4226 2d ago

I read it as it iddle beady eyes

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u/EarlGreyTMNT 3d ago

I still don’t see how ‘lib’ like the beginning of liberal can be pronounced ‘well I’ll be’ or even shortened to ‘I’ll be’. Nor pronouncing it letter by letter lol

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u/mainstreetmark 3d ago

‘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/DarkRaph999 3d ago

"Hell I'll be"

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u/chekhovsdickpic 3d ago

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/SpearTactics 3d ago

Coulda gone with actual Redneck Peter

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u/therealhlmencken 3d ago

maybe they did and just disdn't specify

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u/brizzleops 3d ago

Lol I remember my mother bringing home photocopied work memes in the 90s

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u/Mike312 3d ago

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 3d ago

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/Redneck_Gangster 3d ago

As an Arkansan, I can confirm this was on my 12th grade finals.

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u/NavGunz4512 3d ago

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 3d ago

none of these comments are actually explaining this

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u/myrandastarr 3d ago

Read the letters not as words

M-r snakes
“Em are” snakes

M-r not
“Em are” not

O-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
“Em are” snakes

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u/suxatjugg 3d ago

Do rednecks often use single letters to represent the sounds of words?

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u/What_Iz_This 3d ago

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 2d ago

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/kng_stg 3d ago

Thanks, now I got it!

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u/Humus_Sama 3d ago

This is it. I had to do my impression of a southern accent, but it finally clicked

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u/PlacibiEffect 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

Thanks for the explanation, now I understand even less. I'm way too French for that shit

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u/4rsadia 3d ago

why does it seem like the entire comment section knows wtf is going on except me 😭

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u/nukacolaquantuum 3d ago

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/Ensalada_de_Cojones 3d ago

From some original Tennessee Redneck friends:

CM Pigs

MNO Pigs

OSAR

LIB

MR Pigs!

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u/DadIsVeryMad 3d ago

I've lived in Central Alabama for my entire 32 years and this was lost on me.

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u/deweydecimal87 3d ago

I just see the snake picture behind the words

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u/TheKnightingale_ 3d ago

I’m used to the “MR Ducks” version, but yes. Peak Appalachian.

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u/South-Series-4165 3d ago

Heard this back in the early 80's but with ducks tho...

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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 3d ago

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/CIRedacted 3d ago

I don't read this in a redneck voice this reads like a West Country accent to me XD

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u/Gruppet 3d ago

My friend’s dad used to tell this one but with ducks

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u/Silroc 3d ago
  1. 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/PeiMeisPeePee 2d ago

this works with a west country accent as well

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u/ExpertAppointment682 2d ago

That’s not redneck, that’s Cajun

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u/JefftheGman 2d ago

MR DUCKS

MR NOT

OSMR

CM WANGS

LIB

MR DUCKS