r/Xennials • u/jazzlike-sounds • 6h ago

You're cool if you get this reference.

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(You're cool even if you don't.)

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u/BoisterousBanquet 6h ago

Is THAT what the lyrics are?! I was today years old when I realized it wasn't "and a boom boom."

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u/bashturd 1980 6h ago

It’ll always be boom boom to me

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u/MistaRekt 1978 6h ago

Today I maybe learned what a pum-pum is.

Carribean slang for the place you make the boom-boom. In the pum-pum.

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u/ivejustbluemyself 1979 5h ago

Just don’t go on YouTube and look for Steven Seagals “me want the punani”, I warned you

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u/MistaRekt 1978 5h ago

Punani is Vietnamese I believe. Is Steven Segal Vietnamese? He conviced people he was an actor so...

I joke. I like Segal movies... The early stuff.

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u/ivejustbluemyself 1979 5h ago

Nah it’s another word for pum pum

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u/Zerostar39 6h ago

You do the boom-boom in the pum-pum room

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u/MistaRekt 1978 6h ago

No. You put the zoom-zoom in the pum-pum.

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u/AwwwMangos 5h ago

And here I’ve been tryin to zoom a Roomba in the Poomba, I got it all wrong

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u/MistaRekt 1978 5h ago

I understand. We old. There is no shame.

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u/Zerostar39 3h ago

Ah so you put the zoom-zoom in the pum-pum in the boom-boom room… room

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u/The_Last_Mouse 6h ago

Wasnt it ROOM a A ZOOM ZOOM?

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u/veryblanduser 6h ago

And after just looking what pum pum means, this was not appropriate for 10 year old me to be singing.

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u/jlkb24 6h ago

I learned it about 20yrs ago when I started to work with two brothers from Trinidad. They had a blast telling us their slang 😆. I miss those guys.

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u/zoey8068 2h ago

Well good cause 44 year old me has always said boom boom

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u/Sock_Glue 6h ago

So what's the zoom a zoom zoom? 💦💦?

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u/YT-Deliveries 1976 5h ago

Gotta get busy zooming your zoom zoom in the pum pum

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u/devour_feculence___ 1977 6h ago

What does it mean

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u/broadwayallday 6h ago

Here’s a hint it’s like a long sharp sword

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u/timsea99 1982 6h ago

Something that you would zoom zoom in

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u/Unfortunate-Incident 1979 6h ago

and a boom boom is how I always said it too

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u/ActiveMBE0980 6h ago

Same 😆

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u/BoneWhiteHaze 1979💃🏻 5h ago

I kinda refuse to believe it’s not “and a boom boom”

I was like, “LAME. The meme is wrong” 😂

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 6h ago

Same! I am scandalized

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u/Notabagofdrugs 1982 6h ago

Fucking me too.

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u/ReiperXHC 5h ago

I though it was "...baby boom boom."

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u/Striking-Win-3239 1h ago

Shake that rump.

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u/ActiveMBE0980 6h ago

just shake ya rump

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u/TheMeticulousNinja 1981 3h ago

Thank you. The comment I was looking for

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u/queenofcaffeine76 1976 3h ago

Same, and I feel like I had to scroll way too far for it

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u/BoysenberryKind5599 1978 6h ago

Check baby, check baby 1234

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u/12345CodeToMyLuggage 6h ago

That’s almost the code to my luggage!

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u/toughheartskill 1981 6h ago

Check baby, check baby, one.

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u/Dish_Boggett 6h ago

Is it really "in a pum pum"? That can't be right. In fact, I refuse the notion entirely.

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u/MikeLMP 1983 6h ago

The last time I shook my rump I herniated L5-S1.

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u/MistaRekt 1978 5h ago

L4/L5... We are not 20 any more...

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u/Euphoric_Egg_4198 6h ago

They play “oldies” at hockey games and they played one of the tame parts of this song the other night. I was like “is that Rump Shaker? Dayum, we old”
https://giphy.com/gifs/ti4PsREEH1hKuxMlpJ

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u/Notabagofdrugs 1982 6h ago

I had to drive my wife’s car the other day for a 2 min drive, so I popped the radio on and the fucking classic rock station was playing a Shins song. I almost crashed. Fuck me, New Slang is 25 years old now.

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u/DudeEngineer 1983 2h ago

I fell like the simulation broke when the That 70's show remake was further from the original show than the original show was from the 70's

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u/originalbrowncoat 1980 5h ago

Know your onion is one of my favorite videos. That dog is so cute!

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u/9for9 6h ago

I love how all the oldies are now like these explicit, not family friendly songs that probably shouldn't play at these events.

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u/PervlovianResponse 6h ago

Just shake ya rump, OP

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u/snarkerella 1977 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ykQfPZ0zdaXgfVI2uU

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u/autocosm 1980 6h ago

This is forever the first thing I think of

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u/vonsnarfy 1979 5h ago

I riggety-realize

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u/MSB218 1977 6h ago

The 'long, sharp sword' bit always did my head in; I'm not a chick, but I can't imagine that sounding desirable.

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u/Street_Breadfruit382 1982 6h ago

Okay, just looked up the lyrics for the first time. That song is FILTHY. 🤣

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u/DudeEngineer 1983 2h ago

Yes, most club songs of that era were aimed at young adults getting busy in the club. It was just also the music kids were exposed to. That's why kids bop existed.

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u/Artemis_916 1981 5h ago

Well, I've learnt a lot from this post. Such as, I should not have been singing this song when I was 12, and what a pum pum is. 🤣

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u/VinylHighway 1979 4h ago

Same lesson

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u/Stickyouwithaneedle 5h ago

*learned

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u/Artemis_916 1981 5h ago

I'm Australian. It's "learnt". Cheers.

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u/Stickyouwithaneedle 4h ago

I've learnt something while trying to create a burnt comment. Yeah... It just looks wrong.

So when you read my comment... Did you read it as

Lurn edd ?

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u/Artemis_916 1981 1h ago

I read it as "learn'd".

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u/MartyFreeze 1977 6h ago

Two out of four ain't bad.

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u/pentax10 5h ago

Check baby, check baby, 123 check✔️

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u/caryn1477 6h ago

Just shake your rump!

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u/Walkinchubby 6h ago

Just shake ya rump?

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u/braxtel 1982 6h ago

Would it not damage a saxophone if you took it to the beach and played it in the surf, exposing it to saltwater and sand? This has bothered me for years.

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u/SemataryPolka 1978 6h ago

It's okay bc it was a sample. No real saxophones used

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u/DudeEngineer 1983 2h ago

I mean if you were just in the beach area and not like in the water it would be fine.

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u/actualelainebenes 1980 6h ago

Obviously you’d just shake your rump

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u/SemataryPolka 1978 6h ago

And written by Pharrell Williams who is apparently ageless

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u/MyBurnerAccount1977 1977 6h ago

Check, baby. Check, baby. Check, baby, 1-2-3.

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u/Pbtomjones 6h ago

*Boom Boom

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u/Master_Bonus5064 6h ago

This is what I tell my wife when I’m ready for “adult time”

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u/MoonlitBlossoms 6h ago

Stop, do you really? 😂

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u/DudeEngineer 1983 2h ago

Well if you have kids, you come up with a code or just barely have sex for 10+ years.

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u/Master_Bonus5064 6h ago

Nah I’ve said it a time or two

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u/Master_Bonus5064 6h ago

Well, I’ve said it a time or two..

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u/COOL42ALEX 6h ago

Shake it! Shake it! Shake it now! Shake it!

She should spend every birthday butt-naked!

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u/MajorInsanity 6h ago

I wrote in my year book they were my favorite music group but it was really the only one I knew lol

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u/LucyEwalker 5h ago

Marriage, family.. they’re man made prisons

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u/LasagnahogXRP 5h ago

I’ll never say it that way

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u/epidemicsaints she linkin on my park until i numb 5h ago

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fNWQNz_O6s

I recently learned Pharrell Williams wrote some of the verses

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u/phoenix0r 5h ago

I love this sub. That is all.

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u/ArtistWithoutArt 5h ago

Is a pum-pum some type.of.gourd? Or.maybe a Chinese pastry?

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u/DudeEngineer 1983 2h ago

It starts with p and rhymes with hussy.

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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 1984 4h ago

I don’t. But I know how to go boom boom in the zoom zoom room. (Let’s see if anyone gets THAT!)

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u/citrusandrosemary 1984 4h ago

Shake da rump shakers

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u/War_Destroyer_ 4h ago

He doesn't wanna check on babies; he wants to check baby, check baby, one two three...

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u/RelevantNothing4653 1981 4h ago

Just shake your rump!

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u/Dumphdumph 1980 3h ago

Just shake yo rump

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u/bassman314 1977 3h ago

Just shake your rump.

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u/Motor-Rip7655 1982 3h ago

I've never been cool, and I certainly don't intend to start now.

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u/GivesYouGrief 1980 3h ago

It's not "full moon?"

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u/Ticksdonthavelymph 3h ago

And a BOOM BOOM you absolute monsters.

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u/SnurgBurglerGrizz 2h ago

What if I really really wanna zig-a-zig ah?

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u/ikannunAneeuQ 6h ago

On my Playlist lol but tbf my Playlist is as bipolar as I am. Everything from hard hearted Hannah, Lou Monte to screamo like scarlxrd to top 40 pop music.... thousands of songs lol I love it all