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
Reminds me of monster house:
Girl: "look! That must be the uvula"
Guy: "ooooooh, so it's a girl house"
Girl: confused look
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
Yeah. I was going off OPs answer to continue a joke (unless they just made a funny typo).
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.
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.
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 🙈
Gary Larson is amazing. He's in his 70's and apparently still publishing new work like this every day! Good for him!
My comment is from 1992. I just re-posted it today because Lemmy didn't exist back then.