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 
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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
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This only adds another layer to the joke. Beautiful.
Reminds me of monster house:
Girl: "look! That must be the uvula"
Guy: "ooooooh, so it's a girl house"
Girl: confused look
Always pops into mind when a uvula is mentioned.
I never understood that
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
Japanese usually does similar stuff. It's the "mouth cover hang" in Japanese 口蓋垂
It's the, the, whatchumacallit... *snaps tongue* the uvulva! I'm sure of it.
Correct. Uvulva. You get 50 points. That first U makes all the difference.
Awww. U make a difference too
It's uvula tho
You're that guy, today. Sorry.
I was so proud to know this obscure word off the top of my head (I'm not even sure I know it in my native language) I just had to post 😂
Lol
Yeah. I was going off OPs answer to continue a joke (unless they just made a funny typo).
Yeah, in retrospect, it appears this exchange whooshed right over my head.
Perhaps you should look it up…you know for research purposes 🧐
UwUlva
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas
I was going to say, I know the answer, but was not sure I could spell it correctly.
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Wait is this not common knowledge? That's what the comic seems to imply
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.
It seems more common now than when the comic was new
Uvula.
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.
Yeah to be fair I'm american so I've seen it from both sides.
Reminds me of a little joke—
Knock knock…
Who's there?
Not OP
Not OP who?
Not OP but I'll accept it anyway
Courage hangy-ball
Depends. Is it Thursday?
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 🙈
Cardi B in shambles
One of several things I learned from Monster House.
Amateurs. I learned it from the original Full House. AKA the Nerve Hangy Ball.
I may well have learnt from far side, or Britannica after the far side comic
Gary Larson is amazing. He's in his 70's and apparently still publishing new work like this every day! Good for him!
I love how every post here has this comment now.
My comment is from 1992. I just re-posted it today because Lemmy didn't exist back then.
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