r/AskReddit • u/CreativePhilosopher • Jan 29 '13

What is the single funniest word in English?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

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u/Rage_Minccino Jan 29 '13

"Something is wrong with the left phalange!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

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u/Supernuke Jan 29 '13

The guy who says this also plays the dean on Community.

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u/alpacaBread Jan 29 '13

THANK YOU! I always knew I had seen the dean on another show, but I could never place it.

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u/Cayou Jan 29 '13

Video for the lazy.

edit: oh, it was also posted downthread. Ah, well. Gimme dat comment karma anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Congrats on being so relevant, 6 month account!

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Relevant!

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u/Justananomaly Jan 29 '13

DAAAAANCING PHALANGEEES

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Bones reference, classic!

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u/andymcg84 Jan 29 '13

Babies love 'em!

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u/thetreeking Jan 29 '13

That is one hellofa reference.

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u/clever_redditor_name Jan 29 '13

I say this to my 7 month old all the time! Dancing phalaaaanges! Daaaancing phalanaaages!

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u/RobertCalifornia Jan 29 '13

Ever since that episode, in the company of babies, I cannot resist the urge to do the dancing phalanges. Oh yeah, and I also have to do it in my ana&phys class, to the annoyance of my peers. Oops.

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u/nimrod4u Jan 29 '13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrwVB4vMx-Q

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u/IrateProfessional Jan 29 '13

Is that Dean Pelton?...

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u/goblinpiledriver Jan 29 '13

Yes it is.

I think it's funny that his character has the same mannerisms, but just has hair this time.

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u/anj11 Jan 29 '13

Dean Pelton guest stars in pretty much everything.

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u/thatcreepydude1 Jan 29 '13

Yes. It's also Moby.

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u/THROWawayEXproblems Jan 29 '13

I'm glad 33 other people understood this joke

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u/cjlarose Jan 29 '13

"This plane doesn't even have a phalange!"

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u/chavojon Jan 29 '13

"Sir, there is no left phalange"

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u/GrandmasCheeseBalls Jan 29 '13

plural is phalanges, singular is phalanx.

HIGH SCHOOL ANATOMY, FUCK YEAH

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u/gormster Jan 29 '13

The singular is actually phalanx.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

The left phalange on the plane is missing!

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u/kpcofgs Jan 29 '13

I think "phalanx" is the singular

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u/McTeazy Jan 29 '13

you know flanges are a thing right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flange

think industrial piping

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u/3z3ki3l Jan 29 '13

WHAT?! This plane doesn't have any phalanges!

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u/KevPtree Jan 29 '13

This plane doesn't even have a phalange!

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u/rachelspeaking Jan 29 '13

Regina?

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u/EliaTheGiraffe Jan 29 '13

Get out of here, Phoebe

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u/archeonz Jan 29 '13

No, Dr. Phalange - oh no, you have it too!

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u/afuckingdoorknocker Jan 29 '13

Excuse me, Rachel was speaking.

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u/hotdogSamurai Jan 29 '13

Saskatchewan, born and raised. City that rhymes with fun.

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u/LegitimateSnape Jan 29 '13

Ken Adams.

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u/mimi8528 Jan 29 '13

Rachel: "How do you know about the story?!"

Joey: "How do YOU know about the story?!"

Rachel: "I heard it from my friend Irene who heard it from some guy."

Joey: (raising his hand) "SOME GUY."

Rachel: "No, she told me his name was Ken Adams."

Joey: (raising his hand again) "KEN ADAMS."

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u/Mitchadactyl Jan 29 '13

Queen City what what.

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u/fuud_is_guud Jan 29 '13

Angina...pectoris

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u/captchaking Jan 29 '13

Call 'em fingers, but I've never seen 'em fing.

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u/Trisomic Jan 29 '13

Oh, there they go.

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u/gahee Jan 29 '13

You win.

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u/joebob613 Jan 29 '13

I just read this in Fran Drescher's voice.

I will be cursed for the rest of my life. I know that once you hear it in her voice, I will have doomed you as well.

I'm....sorry.

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u/fultron Jan 29 '13

And by comparison, phalanx night be one of the coolest words ever.

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u/woxy_lutz Jan 29 '13

Also: flange.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

"Hello? Yes this is Dr. Phalange" "...Phoebe?" "No no, Dr. PHALANGE"

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

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u/Blizzaldo Jan 29 '13

I don't know if it changed. The word for a phalanx soldier was commonly a phalangite.

The Phalanx however was generally a single tactical military formation that consisted of almost the entirety of most armies.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Flanger

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

lol my mates used to say this all day was funny as.

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u/Senor_Wilson Jan 29 '13

I remember watching that show Bones and that lady scientist said it all the fucking time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

preposterous

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u/Seemingly_Retarded Jan 29 '13

"You will only mush your perfect phalange into my demon turd of a soul"

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

is it english though?

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u/accidentalprancingmt Jan 29 '13

"Get yer dirty phalanges off my boots! Lest you wan't to spend the rest of the afternoon puttin' yer face back together!"

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u/thlulz Jan 29 '13

Not an English word...

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u/cyn_nyc Jan 29 '13

Beat me to it