Sent this to my wife that’s a speech and language pathologist who will without a doubt not laugh but rather answer the question haha.
Edit: called it lmao
This only adds another layer to the joke. Beautiful.
Reminds me of monster house:
Girl: “look! That must be the uvula”
Guy: “ooooooh, so it’s a girl house”
Girl: confused look
Always pops into mind when a uvula is mentioned.
I never understood that
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I thought it was closer to uterus, and that’s what he was thinking of? A kid that age would be more likely to know that word because of health classes; they don’t teach words like ‘vulva’ (in the US, at least. Too sexual, I guess 🙄) which is why so many people don’t learn there’s a separate word for vulva and vagina until they’re way older.
Either way, though, I too always think of this joke!
Uvula bears a certain resemblance to the word “vulva”, a term boys are more probably likely to confuse since they lack one.
The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen
“Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).
And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.
It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃
It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it.
It’s what Germans do, you can’t stop them, they’ll compound compound words until everything is just one biglongsentenceword. Doesn’t work as well in Englisch but w/e
Japanese usually does similar stuff. It’s the “mouth cover hang” in Japanese 口蓋垂
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It’s the, the, whatchumacallit… *snaps tongue* the uvulva! I’m sure of it.
Correct. Uvulva. You get 50 points. That first U makes all the difference.
Awww. U make a difference too
It’s uvula tho
You’re that guy, today. Sorry.
I was so proud to know this obscure word off the top of my head (I’m not even sure I know it in my native language) I just had to post 😂
Lol
Yeah. I was going off OPs answer to continue a joke (unless they just made a funny typo).
Yeah, in retrospect, it appears this exchange whooshed right over my head.
Perhaps you should look it up…you know for research purposes 🧐
UwUlva
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas
I was going to say, I know the answer, but was not sure I could spell it correctly.
I’m just too got-dang smart. Built different, y’know.
Wait is this not common knowledge? That’s what the comic seems to imply
I’d bet this comic is a large part of why it’s more common knowledge now. It’s the reason I looked it up as a kid.
It seems more common now than when the comic was new
Uvula.
Reminds me of a little joke—
Knock knock…
Who’s there?
Not OP
Not OP who?
Not OP but I’ll accept it anyway
Bab’s uvula…
Bab’s uvula who?
I don’t know, Babs. But I do know this—You’ve really let your uvula go to the dogs!
I learned about the uvula once in my 20s when I drank and partied too much. Turns out I snore when i drink and when you snore you dehydrate your already dehydrated self. My uvula was swollen. The doctor (I was living in a country where health care was easy to access) sort of laughed and told me to drink water and reminded me I’m not superhuman.
Not recommended btw.
I was living in a country where health care was easy to access
Flexing on USA here.
Yeah to be fair I’m american so I’ve seen it from both sides.
Courage hangy-ball
One of several things I learned from Monster House.
Amateurs. I learned it from the original Full House. AKA the Nerve Hangy Ball.
I may well have learnt from far side, or Britannica after the far side comic
Cardi B in shambles
I’m pretty sure it’s Cardi B that you’re trying to reference.
God you’re right, fixed.
I always remember it because there is a Green Day song: ‘Bab’s Uvula Who?’ Teen me was like, wtf mate? Apparently it’s taken from SNL from before I was born 🙈
Depends. Is it Thursday?
Gary Larson is amazing. He’s in his 70’s and apparently still publishing new work like this every day! Good for him!
I love how every post here has this comment now.
My comment is from 1992. I just re-posted it today because Lemmy didn’t exist back then.
Uvavu.
Eranu
