๐ŸŽผ Everyone knows it’s Wendy

Is the joke simply that the pattern is not followed? Or do they find a special significance in the name “Wendy”?

P.S. for nostalgiasts here is a performance of the song half-referenced in the post title. And note that some of the lyrics do work for an avian such as Wendy, e.g. “And Windy has wings to fly / Above the clouds” . Hmm, maybe not quite above the clouds…

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  1. Unknown's avatar

    Besides breaking the pattern of rhyming nicknames, โ€œWendyโ€ reveals that the last โ€œgullโ€ is actually a girl (who is not pleased at all about the reference to her weight).

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Men often give each other ‘insulting’ nicknames and it’s just accepted; it’s part of how some guys bond. So the worm’s guess wasn’t a bad one, based on the assumption that it was a group of all guys (it seemed like a pattern, and how would the worm tell a bird’s gender?). But you NEVER give that sort of nickname to a woman.

  3. Unknown's avatar

    I thought it was just the old joke where the name of the last one breaks the pattern. Like “My wife just gave birth to quadruplets. We named them Eenie, Meenie, Miney and Herman. Why Herman? Because we don’t want no Moe.”

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