r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Little_Marsupial9383 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago

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u/Proudoggo123 1d ago

peter no.5 here

A little bit of Monica in my life
A little bit of Erica by my side
A little bit of Rita's all I need
A little bit of Tina's what I see
A little bit of Sandra in the sun
A little bit of Mary all night long
A little bit of Jessica, here I am

lyrics to a song; mambo no5

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u/Spiritual_Sail_8969 1d ago

Yep, and now this will be playing in my head the rest of the day.

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u/AdPhysical6481 1d ago

Same. At least it's a good one.

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 1d ago

I heard it in the grocery store today and also heard multiple people singing along to it lol

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u/danielcw189 1d ago

peter no.5 here

I would have preferred Lou Peta, but your name is better

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u/Level_Counter_1672 1d ago

I always thought it was an American song, turns out it's from Germany

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u/anand_rishabh 22h ago

Wait, what??

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u/Level_Counter_1672 20h ago

The singer is German

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u/anand_rishabh 20h ago

Can't believe this is how i find out lou bega is German. I've never heard a hint of an accent.

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u/Level_Counter_1672 20h ago

There was a viral German song called "gut genug" sung by rayan djima, if you listen to him he sounds American but he's born and raised in Germany, I guess Germans are just like that

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u/Sirius1701 19h ago

I'm not sure why, but we english pretty well.

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u/Winter_Drawer_9257 17h ago

Same language family

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u/LegendOfCrono 22h ago

A little bit of you make me your man

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u/Broodjekip_1 21h ago

*trumpet*

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u/Mean_Category_8933 1d ago

The Trumpet!

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u/Physical_Software406 10h ago

what the fuck is MERTSMJ

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u/thecountnotthesaint 1d ago

Chris here

The joke is those are the women from Mambo #5.

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u/dimonium_anonimo 1d ago

Monica is a tall drink of water.

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u/Ambitious_Bit_9389 1d ago

A tall drink of water with a silver spoon up his ass.

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u/Correct_Ad9471 1d ago

Spoiler alert, Monica isn't a man's name.

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u/Phil-Prince 1d ago

But my black friends, all guys, call each other Monica all the time...

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u/Ambitious_Bit_9389 1d ago

It’s a quote from Shawshank Redemption. It was actually referring to the main character,Andy Dufresne

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u/discreteturtle 20h ago

looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over

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u/thecountnotthesaint 1d ago

Only if you pay extra

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u/Buttimus_Prime 20h ago

We all need alittle bit of Monica in our life.

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u/PalpitationMoist1212 18h ago

6 foot 4 for my Americans

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u/sleepyhead_420 21h ago

The post makes me feel old. I didn't know anyone at my time who didn't know that song.

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u/Winter_Drawer_9257 1d ago

Why does Monica, the biggest player, not simply eat the other players?

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u/tiggle5485 1d ago

Brilliant plan, eat your teammates to get bigger

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u/Beneficial_Mix_1430 1d ago

That would explain why Shaq is the size of a small house

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u/Psalm101Three 1d ago

Just Monica

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 1d ago

Welp, that’s going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day

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u/operath0r 1d ago

Flooding the world with catchy pop songs might be the second worst thing the Germans did.

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u/Time-Box-6580 1d ago

99 des Luftballons…

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u/operath0r 1d ago

Stolen Dance

Major Tom

Forever Young

Wind of Change

Mr Vain

What is Love

…

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u/Time-Box-6580 1d ago

Baby don’t hurt me…

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u/Aeioluz 1d ago

Don't hurt me..

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u/Time-Box-6580 1d ago

No more…

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u/operath0r 1d ago

Maria Magdalene

Live is Life

You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul

Oh well, I guess we could do this all night…

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u/anand_rishabh 22h ago

Wind of change? The scorpions are German?

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u/operath0r 22h ago

Yeah, they’re from my hometown. We’ve got an ice hockey team that’s named after them.

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u/anand_rishabh 22h ago

Huh. Never would have guessed. Granted I've only heard a few songs by them but never heard a hint of a German accent

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u/operath0r 22h ago

You don’t really hear an accent in most German songs that became popular internationally. Peter Schilling might be the exception.

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u/anand_rishabh 21h ago

Yeah i definitely heard it in peter schilling. Though I'd have guessed him being German from his name anyway. I was also thinking more of British bands like pink floyd and u2 where you can hear their British accent in some songs

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u/CatL1f3 19h ago

Now that you know they're German, if you listen for a German accent, you can hear it, but it's subtle if you're not paying attention.

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u/lettsten 17h ago

It's infectious, even caused Boney M to do the same even though none of them were born in Germany or even German citizens afaik

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u/Scones2 1d ago

It is a fuckin banger tbf

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u/TRAcarHess 20h ago

Literally haha. I was on a drive the other day on some fun backroads with speed limits far too high and it just popped into my brain. Absolutely. Perfect. Song. So fun

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 1d ago

You know what’s funny, I knew that when the song came out and completely forgot until these comments🤣

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u/the_millenial_falcon 1d ago

The women from Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5.

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u/KeyNefariousness6848 1d ago

194 cm, that’s 6’4”, that’s more than a little bit of Monica.

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u/enigT 1d ago

That’s exactly what a little bit means. Since she’s so big even a little bit of her is ginormous

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u/papapepe124 1d ago

It's a song :D, It says:

A little bit of Monica in my life
A little bit of Erica by my side
A little bit of Rita's all I need
A little bit of Tina's what I see
A little bit of Sandra in the sun
A little bit of Mary all night long
A little bit of Jessica, here I am

Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)

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u/coolmanjack 1d ago

"professor"?? These people are in college and being tested on what a mode is?? That's like 5th grade math jfc

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u/lettsten 17h ago

Looks like the "professor" is an instagram account.

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u/TemporarilyResolute 1d ago

Wow Monica is very tall. That’s around 6’4.4

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u/LivingOil8135 1d ago

I ain't complainin

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u/TemporarilyResolute 1d ago

As a tall person (6’3 ish) I love tall people lol, there needs to be more of us out there

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u/Cpalmer24 1d ago

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is...

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u/lettsten 17h ago

... the moment you've all been waiting for, the world famous...

/troll

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u/Little_Marsupial9383 19h ago

I have certainly listened to that song, but neither is English my first language and neither is that song is something I could relate to that easily.

Thanks for explaining

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u/Little_Marsupial9383 1d ago

My best guess is black woman being taller, but I genuinely don’t know

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u/CoalaPirata 1d ago

Is Monica a black woman name? Monica to me is small, chubby and has big teeth.

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u/Nervous-Blacksmith-3 1d ago

Brazilian detected

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u/whofarting 1d ago

My first thought was Freak-A-Leek by Petey Pablo. But only a couple of the names match, from what I remember.

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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 1d ago

Mambo no. You guess the number

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u/Mr_Fridolin 1d ago

and yet none of their highes containes the mambo Numba 5

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u/Dantox2007 1d ago

A little bit of Monica in my life...

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u/JaxCross 1d ago

Fuck'en great 😂

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u/LumpyheadCarini1974 1d ago

Off topic but what is the modal height? And what the hell is netball?

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u/Ok_Stage_8547 1d ago

omg monica just like me 😓😓😓

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u/BAthaDoc 1d ago

He did the mambo. On the ditto. Smooth.

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u/Eurocentralist 1d ago

The answer is 171

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u/jackley4 1d ago

Lmao netball

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u/Varderal 1d ago

Reminds me of a physics test I took that had a Bill and Ted doing something. I wrote in "did they go on an adventure?" Along with the answer and the prof put "yes an excellent one" xD

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u/Ok_Two_2604 1d ago

Netball. Probably has other questions about sportball and handegg.

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u/iSeraph87 1d ago

Jump up and down, and move it all around!

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u/do-di-do-di-da 1d ago

Dang I didn’t know the girls from mambo no. 5 were trans

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u/Throwaway_whatthehey 23h ago

Ok I like this one. This is cute.

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u/NickelCitySaint 23h ago

Mambo #5!!!!!!

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u/IppenuttJohansson 23h ago

I guess Angela and Pamela didn’t make the team :(

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u/charizardine 23h ago

Mambo Nr 5. But.. A teacher with social media ads on their work sheets? 

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u/Chef_Tadow 22h ago

Lou bega forever

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u/leekangin77777 21h ago

Mambo number 5

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u/ronnie98865 20h ago

No one gonna bring up modal? I had to Google it and got some computer program because I'd never heard that word. I also didn't graduate highschool and am not very versed in langusics

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u/lettsten 17h ago

It just means "which number occurs most often"

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u/ronnie98865 17h ago

So like mean, median, and mode right? I can't remember which is which but I'm assuming mode was it

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u/lettsten 17h ago

Yup! Mean is summing everything and dividing by number of entries, median is taking the number in the middle (after sorting)

So if you have 2, 2, 5, 6, 10, mean is (2+2+5+6+10) ÷ 5, median is 5, mode is 2

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u/leekmapussay 19h ago

You have to be of a certain age group to understand this immediately.

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u/solliemonster91 18h ago

Mambo #5 🤘

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u/zynftw 17h ago

Modal #5

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u/Hsoj08 10h ago

I understood that reference ☝️

It’s Mambo #5

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u/Stunning_Boss976 9h ago

Pamela and Angela always fly under the radar 

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u/Hybrid_Backyard 8h ago

Wow... been a long time since I've been reminded of that song hahaha

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u/Ch0vie 1d ago

The joke is that the answer is 171cm

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u/Fine-Ideal-130 1d ago

Never heard Mambo Number 5 by Lou Bega?

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u/Little_Marsupial9383 19h ago

Yes I have, but didn’t really think of it, and neither I had remembered all of its lyrics hahaha

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 23h ago

That is the name of the seven children in the smash musical The Sound of Music staring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Christopher Reeves.

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u/Ill_Ad5893 1d ago

Hidden account. I smell bot