M R ducks.
Posted by dyoll26@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 80 comments
Do your IRL friends reply with ‘M R not ducks’ etc… ? The younger generations do not seem to know this joke😂
Posted by dyoll26@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 80 comments
Do your IRL friends reply with ‘M R not ducks’ etc… ? The younger generations do not seem to know this joke😂
CaimanWendt@reddit
OSMR
ikonet@reddit
I did not know this was a game. I only saw it as dialogue in the Fallout game. I assumed it was just a joke in that game.
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
Well I had to go look up ‘fallout’ 😂. I started playing Atari in the late 70’s and by the 90’s didn’t care about video games anymore.
ikonet@reddit
Video games are fun though! From Breakout and Combat all the way to Cyberpunk and Spider-Man. You’re missing out lol
Ineffable7980x@reddit
I'm GenX and I don't know this joke.
Wixenstyx@reddit
I don't know. I heard them in Missouri.
The one I remember best went like this:
C M snakes?
M N O snakes.
O S A R! C D E D B D Is?
L I B! M R snakes!
Say the letters aloud as if they are words, preferably with your best hillbilly accent.
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
The comments indicate there is more than one version of this. Ducks. Dogs. Snakes. 😂
evilJaze@reddit
The Newfoundland variant is fish.
Wixenstyx@reddit
Oh yeah. The dogs one I remember was 'puppies'. "C M P N?"
dreaminginteal@reddit
There was a book my grandparents had. "C D B".
It started out with "C D B. D B S A B-Z B."
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
I’m from PA. Is a regional thing? Or Military from my Dad maybe?
cyvaquero@reddit
I'm from Centre County, can't say I remember this at all.
Primary-Cattle-636@reddit
Nepa, never heard of whatever is being discussed here.
ironlungbreathe@reddit
L I B, M R Ducks
Wthmithinkin@reddit
O S M R ducks
Ghost-of-Sanity@reddit
I write this joke on a napkin at work at least a half dozen times per year and see if people can read it correctly. Nobody ever does. Lol
LIB MR DUCKS
_ism_@reddit
my calculus teacher taught us this on the first day
littlefire_2004@reddit
Mrnotducks
OldBanjoFrog@reddit
M R Not
daddyjohns@reddit
O S M R!!
Ok-Rock2345@reddit
I L M R
stockvillain@reddit
OS M R
Avg_Sun_Enjoyer69@reddit
C D E D B D Wings
NoYOUGrowUp@reddit
I always thought it was O S A R
Cobra-Lalalalalalala@reddit
C M Wings
Squishyswimmingpool@reddit
C M B D Is
AdJunior4923@reddit
MR2!
Slight-Rub-559@reddit
Along the lines of “well you can call me Ray or you can call me J…”
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
Just don’t call me late for dinner 😂
SecretSquirrel8888@reddit
Eastern Shore Maryland talks that way.
trukkd@reddit
Great. Now I want to go Downey Ocean.
Abranda44@reddit
M R not ducks
Logan9Fingerses@reddit
A B C D E D B D Ducks
M R not ducks
O S A R
C M Wings?
Abranda44@reddit
Whale oil beef hooked!
M R Ducks!
Kokopelle1gh@reddit
No M R Not
O S A R
M R 2 ducks
L I B
M really R ducks
Starcat75@reddit
Whale oil Beef hooked MR ducks
Authoritaye@reddit
This one needs an Ulster accent.
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
Hahahah! Had not heard that part before. Good one😂
Not_a_leak_549@reddit
Ah, memories.
valis6886@reddit
Taught my son that YEARS ago haha. That and Marezy Doats. :)
Macropixi@reddit
I only know this joke because it appeared on a sub that shows up in my feed
PreferenceDangerous4@reddit
Boomer joke.
Yasashii_Akuma156@reddit
Totally confused at first, but scrolled the thread and was reminded as soon as I hit "OSAR!" of the t-shirts I saw in Asheville in the 90s. Can't remember which animal was the subject of the joke.
oddball_ocelot@reddit
M R not ducks, M R decoys!
Candlemom@reddit
M R not
nrith@reddit
B B, C D L F N?
A, M N O L F N!
S A R—C M P N?
truthcopy@reddit
Always heard it as
M R ducks M R not O S A R C M wings? AL be
Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit
this is totally my kind of silly. never seen it before but man am i happy the op has.
thejake1973@reddit
I remember my 4th grade choir teacher showing us this. lol
WhiskeyDeltaBravo1@reddit
C M DUCKS?
M R NOT DUCKS.
O S M R. C M WINGS?
O S I C. M R DUCKS.
owensamo@reddit
I am not familiar with this, but I do recall having a book when I was a child called "C D B" (https://www.amazon.com/C-D-B-William-Steig/dp/0671666894). The only part I remember is:
C D B
D B S A B Z B
O S N D
which made complete sense to my child brain at the time - and apparently stuck long enough for me to remember it now!
SheneedaCocktail@reddit
Oh wow, you've just unlocked a memory -- my grandpa used to have one of these:
A B C D Puppies?
L, M N O Puppies.
O S A R Puppies, C M P N?
I thought it was just him being weird, had no idea until now that this was a "thing."
ricofru@reddit
My horticulture teacher put that on the board one day and said anyone who could tell him what it is can have a free day... No one could but I'll never forget...
M R NOT DUX O S A R C D E D B D WINGS
Mr. Dixon also grew weed and drove a yellow beetle. I loved that guy
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
He sounds like my Latin teacher. School really did used to be better. More well rounded. We did both Shop and Home Economics in 7th or 8th grade. Everyone. The boys and the girls. I learned to use a drill press and a grinder 😎
ricofru@reddit
Yep. These things have been my life for 40 years now.
Was discussing just yesterday with a younger guy here at work how starting in 7th grade my school had all the vocational classes all in one area (Jr and high school both) and I'd go down the line from wood shop to metal shop to auto shop then horticulture... I didn't do electronics or drafting (those were in the front of the building). His school had zero vocational. Language and arts, math and science as well as English and literature all had their own buildings
Dangerous_Abalone528@reddit
OSMR.
GracieThunders@reddit
See tha wangs?
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
C D E D B D E wings😂
First_Code_404@reddit
It was introduced to me as how to speak Texan.
M R ducks
MR not
C M Wangs?
L I B, M R ducks
anonymous_commentor@reddit
CDEDBD ducks?
M No ducks
OSAR
OIC MR ducks
1LostS0L@reddit
Ours here was for C. M. R. Pigs.
happycj@reddit
Woah. First time this sub has baffled me!
No clue whatchall are talking about ….
BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit
M R not
Fireside0222@reddit
Oh wow. Memory unlocked. Cracking up!
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
It was also the name of a bar in Ocean City, MD back in the late ‘80’s
FredTrail@reddit
This is how it became popular in the region. Even there it wasn't a joke people rattled off. Must have just been your group of friends
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
Could be! All my friends are a little abnormal 😎I do remember it from before I went to bars though.
FredTrail@reddit
MR Ducks t-shirts were everywhere in the 90s
mmpjd@reddit
I always heard it as “M R Dogs” “MR Dogs” “M R Not” “C M P” “O OK..M R Dogs”
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
Hahaha C M PN
mmpjd@reddit
I probably screwed it up but it went something like that haha
TheCraftyRaptorYo@reddit
L I B MR Ducks!
laughingpuppy20@reddit
My dad would say that to us kids. I remember now. Thanks! We also used to play the game "you got the word"
Status_Silver_5114@reddit
Uh……….
bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit
I had this question, too.
SL1-was-fake@reddit
I'll be honest, I never knew this joke until the early 2000s. (Im solid GenX, btw) I only learned it because of where I was stationed, we had machinists, which, in true Navy fashion, have as their rate (job) abbreviation MR. I worked with 2 of them that would do the whole bit
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
CDEDBD wings
DungeonDweller252@reddit
L I B
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
I love your Hose Water Survivor 😂😂
dyoll26@reddit (OP)
😂😂 thanks for the laughs