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This is the most sci-fi thing ever
OMG it's R2D2! I loved him in Star Trek
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Okay, what's "Oh Smeg" from? I don't know and it drives me mad
It's from Red Dwarf, a British scifi comedy from the late 80s-90s. It's their take on fake future swears.
I figured out what's missing. He needs a shiny H on his forehead.
It's short for smegma, i.e. dick cheese.
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.
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".
Alright, alright, people coming out of the woodwork to tell me about smegma, Jesus. You win the dick cheese argument. 'Gratz.
And people say this server doesn't have any value!
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."
Red Dwarf
Red dwarf, amazing show
Since nobody else bothered to answer: it's from Red Dwarf
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.
It was a joke, because three people had already answered.
I got whooshed. Right over the head.
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.
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Oh Captain My Captain
He's just trying to get to the wormhole back to vulcan
He's just trying to get to the Wormhole X-treme™ back to Arrakis
ftfy
Finally! someone who gets it!
Browncoats!
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."
it was touch and go there for a minute but this here is a rock solid argument for copyright law.
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He's Arnold, Arnold , Arnold Picard
He's the captain, prim and conscience rock hard
Meh... Planet of the Alien was better.
I see Stargate. I upvote.
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