• Norgur
    13•10 months ago

    Okay, what’s “Oh Smeg” from? I don’t know and it drives me mad

      • @grouchoEnglish
        12•10 months ago

        I figured out what’s missing. He needs a shiny H on his forehead.

        • @dalekcaan@lemm.eeEnglish
          4•10 months ago

          It’s not, actually. Some people thought it was, but apparently the creators had never heard of smegma before and it was just an unfortunate coincidence.

          • Hot SaucermanEnglish
            5•10 months ago

            The creators may claim as much, but…

            Lexicographer Tony Thorne, in his 1990 Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (ISBN 0-7475-2856-X), reports instances of “smeg” (and derivatives) being used as a term of “mild contempt and even affection” among “schoolboys, students and punks” as early as the mid-1970s — a decade or so prior to the inception of the Red Dwarf phenomenon — and claims unequivocally that the etymology of the term traces back to “smegma”.

            • @dalekcaan@lemm.eeEnglish
              14•10 months ago

              Alright, alright, people coming out of the woodwork to tell me about smegma, Jesus. You win the dick cheese argument. 'Gratz.

      • Hot SaucermanEnglish
        3•10 months ago

        No, my friend, smegma is and has been a word and it has a meaning.

        They chose it as an obscure and disgusting word to use as an insult.

        Smegma is the thick, white, cheesy substance that collects under the foreskin of the penis.

        So if you’re uncircumsized, and have ever not washed your dick in a few days, you’re intimately familiar with what smegma is.

        It is categorically not a made-up “future swear.”

      • Hot SaucermanEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        Actually several people already bothered to answer, their answers just haven’t federated to your instance yet. One answer that just says “Red Dwarf” is already at 8 upvotes on my instance of Lemmy.

            • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4•10 months ago

              I disguise a lot of my humor as inane comments. Some people obstinately refuse to acknowledge the joke before eventually resorting to slurs.

              Thanks for not doing that.

              • Norgur
                2•10 months ago

                Okay, this feels too cozy here… let’s bring a little of the good ol Reddit vibe over. It’s not what I really think, but someone has got to do it:

                "What joke, you moron?! Come in, you said stupid shit and now try to pass it off as joke! Besides… no /s so you can’t be joking!

    • @Jaccident@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      It’s the sound your make when your retro fridge breaks down because you looked at it the wrong way. Common occurrence sadly.

  • @Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•10 months ago

    This is the one where Smeagol steals the Ring of Fire from the Circus and kills his cousin Dobby by drowning him in the river Styx. Luckily Homer is there to write an Odyssey. Captain Kirk, ringleader of the Circus, fights it out with Finnegan to see who’s the best, “'Ey, Jimmy Boy. Where’s my Frosted Lucky Charms?” “OMG Spock, that rock monster looks like a pile of Chef-boy-ar-dee. Let’s chow down on these spherules while I use my phaser to light this bong.”