Sometimes I'm a little slow

[andrewducker]

If you ask me "What does X mean?" then I can usually spot references, work out plots, etc.  But that part of my brain doesn't seem to engage automatically.

It took me, for instance, about four years to spot that Central Perk was a pun.

It also explains why I just wandered into the kitchen and spotted an ad for "Shaun the Sheep" on the back of Simon's Weetabix and realised that that was also a pun.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Ooh, how do you pronounce them?

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

The 'au' in Shaun gets flattened to a pure vowel sort of a -- like the first syllable in 'hallelujah', very drop-jaw. Any attempts at 'or' from my mouth come out one part 'o' and three parts 'r'. But this is South Texas speaking.

[andrewducker]

So you pronounce it like Sian?

[darkoshi]

How is Sian pronounced? Like Shawn, Shaun, and Sean? The vowel in those for me all rhymes with the vowel in blond, conned, Ronald, Bond, pawn... (although before I was familiar with the name, I used to think Sean was pronounced "seen" or "see-in"), and Shorn rhymes with born, corn, lore, fore, more... Not that that says much to someone who doesn't know who I pronounce the words. But the latter all have a definite r, whereas the former do not.

Who is Shaun the Sheep, anyway?

[andrewducker]

Sian is pronounced Sharn. That's the Irish for you :->

You don't want to know how Sioban is pronounced...

Shaun the Sheep is from Wallace and Gromit's "A Close Shave" and has since had his own spin-off:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_the_Sheep