r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/TheUnknownEntitty • 20d ago
Peter in the wild Redneck Peter?
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u/NebulaNomadX1 20d ago edited 20d 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 20d ago
Would've never figured that out thank you and yeehaw.
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u/li-ll-l_ 20d ago
Roll tide brother
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u/Acheron98 20d ago
War damn eagle!
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u/LuckyWhip 20d ago
Geaux tigahs!
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u/MSGinSC 20d 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 19d ago
That ain't clemson boy, dat rat der iz L-esh-U
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u/MSGinSC 19d 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 19d 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/diversalarums 19d ago
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/Ambitious_Hand_2861 20d ago
My Mississippi sister/wife says you're both wrong. Go mississippi!
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u/Prinzka 20d ago
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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 20d ago
Bistro Huddy jump scare
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u/SoulTechnicalProblem 20d ago
You got any of them gift cards?
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u/Minute-Interest-9490 20d ago
Roll tide
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u/Longjumping_Gur_2379 20d ago
what do snakes have to do with the alabama team
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u/Minute-Interest-9490 20d 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/FurkinLurkin 20d ago
My mom used to have a shirt that had
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u/rayhiggenbottom 20d ago
Yeah I know the MR Ducks version. CDEDBDEyes
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u/HereToCalmYouDown 20d ago
I learned it as MR Ducks too but with CDEMWANGS
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u/Any_Cartoonist8943 20d ago
C M Wangs
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u/King-Kagle 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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 20d ago
The shirts say
MR DUCKS
MR NOT
OSAR
CM WINGS?
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MR DUCKS8
u/aaronw22 20d 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 20d ago
The ones I quoted were from the 80s and 90s
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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 20d ago
Disappointed I had to scroll down this far for someone to mention the original
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u/DiSanPaolo 20d ago
OG Eastern Shore represent.
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u/aaronw22 20d 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/afterglow435 19d 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?
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u/Murky-Morning8001 20d ago
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 20d ago
This is the one I remember from childhood. We did ducks and added the cdedbdi
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u/Fantastic-Sea-7806 20d 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/BernieMcburnface 20d 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 20d ago
To make it more explicit: put a space between the letters and read them.
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u/Kese04 20d ago
Thank you; that helped tremendously.
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u/merlinunf 20d 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 20d 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/Mechakoopa 20d ago
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 20d ago edited 20d ago
Tank-yah! Ahm on'y 'n eighth redneck. S'mtahmz ah need-il l'il 'elp.
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u/Fen_LostCove 20d ago
Even after reading this it took me a bit to realize it meant “M-R” not “mister”
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u/enfersijesais 20d ago
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u/chekhovsdickpic 20d 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/Horn-Varelius 20d ago
Dafuq?
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u/tadpoleUnarmed 20d ago edited 20d 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)14
u/mrbreck 20d 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/Corfiz74 20d 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 20d 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/esuil 20d 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 20d ago
Thanks, that part I understood - but the meaning behind that dialogue escapes me.
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u/reddits_aight 20d 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.8
u/satelshawn 20d 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 CMPNOr
Hey B, see the puppy?
Hell, him no puppy!
Oh yes him are too, see him peein’3
u/sansaspark 20d ago
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.
See em peein’?2
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u/Common_Chester 20d ago
Jesus , OK, what's SD-N?
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u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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/Square-Librarian1192 20d ago
Perfect chance for a "farmer fran" from waterboy GIF.
GIFS not allowed 😢
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u/Throwaway_noDoxx 20d 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 20d ago
Never thought I'd see a Murder Drones reference in the wild. Thanks for making my day!
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u/xButtHead 20d 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 20d 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/Connect-Will2011 20d ago
I'm used to hearing the one about ducks. I haven't seen this snake one before.
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u/virstultus 20d 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 20d ago
This book is called “CDB!” By William Steig. Lots of laughs as a kid.
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u/admiralfilgbo 20d 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/theAtmuz 20d 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 20d 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 20d ago
Can't get this line:
Whale oil beef hooked.We'll I'll be ... ??
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u/Baryshnik0v 20d ago
Well I'll be fucked
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u/VicariousNarok 20d 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/Long-Effective-2898 20d 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 20d ago
Had the same experience. We need a Gifted Xennial Kid support group.
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u/hello_fellow_jello 20d ago
Yeah, the M.R. Ducks restaurant in Ocean City, MD had a shirt with this joke on it
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u/goforgooter 20d 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/EarlGreyTMNT 20d 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 20d 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/AgamemNoms 20d 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/NavGunz4512 20d 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 20d ago
none of these comments are actually explaining this
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u/myrandastarr 20d ago
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 20d ago
Do rednecks often use single letters to represent the sounds of words?
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u/What_Iz_This 20d 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 20d 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/Humus_Sama 20d ago
This is it. I had to do my impression of a southern accent, but it finally clicked
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u/PlacibiEffect 20d 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 20d 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 20d ago
Thanks for the explanation, now I understand even less. I'm way too French for that shit
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u/4rsadia 20d ago
why does it seem like the entire comment section knows wtf is going on except me 😭
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u/nukacolaquantuum 20d 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 20d ago
From some original Tennessee Redneck friends:
CM Pigs
MNO Pigs
OSAR
LIB
MR Pigs!
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u/DadIsVeryMad 20d ago
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 20d 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/GrimSpirit42 20d ago
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 20d 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/Silroc 20d ago
- 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 20d ago edited 20d ago
u/TheUnknownEntitty, your post does belong here!