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Pigeons (mander.xyz)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Took me an embarrassing amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I still dont get it.

What to say out loud?

Is it suu sticks.

Kuu sticks

Or zoo sticks?

[–] Moghul 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A coo sticks

Acoosticks

Acoustics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

You win. Thank you.

I needed the "u" here to grasp it.

But honestly I think my stupidity on that one is funnier than the joke itself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

ok so far.

It'll become funny once I understand the double meaning. What does it mean the way it is written "coo sticks"? I get the "coo" as the sound of the pidgeon, but the "sticks" escapes me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but I didn't find it funny at all. I got the A coo sticks = Acoustics right away, but it seems forced. Saying a sound 'sticks' is not how one would describe a sound not traveling/bouncing.

[–] FuglyDuck 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The coo doesn’t bounce. It sticks.

The pun is “acoustics”- which is a branch of physics that deal with sound (and also the term for acoustic qualities of a particular enviroment; which is something that is very carefully controlled on a stage)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There word "sticks" is being used in the sense "adheres". So the "coo" doesn't bounce around in a series of reflections, but instead remains attached to the first surface it strikes.

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cooing, is the term for the noise pigeons make.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I would translate a pidgeon sound with an R

Like

Chrooo.

But thats just my 2 cents.

[–] FuglyDuck 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, since when did animal noises get accurately described?

Like yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean.

I have seen some documentary using leafs and straws to blow which sound like fucking invitations. Or af least should.....

you know, I am some kind of a scientist myself