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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Here are the lyrics.
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Tu Youyou
Happy Birthday to you.
https://youtu.be/OAVnOz7i-JA?si=uahPRGUho9hUVf2y
Two yo yo
imagine the cops intercepting a drug delivery to Tu youyou.. who were you taking this to? I was taking the drugs to to youyou… what did you say mother fucker??
That’s not what a pun is.
*Chuckle brothers have entered the chat*
The joke is only very funny to people who cant speak nor understand tonal languages like the different Chinese languages.
Her name is 屠呦呦 (in Pinyin it’s Tu2 You1you1). The “you” is not pronounced “ewe”; it’s pronounced “yo(h)” (similar to yo mama’s yo).
The “Tu” character sounds like it’s going up, and the “you” characters sound like it’s flat.
You can listen to how it sounds on Google translate by typing her Chinese name 屠呦呦 and pressing the sound icon (looks like a speaker).
Furthermore, nobody sings the hbd song with the persons full name, so it’s really just “hbd to (name)”, so it would be “Youyou” and not “Tu Youyou”.
So if you were to sing the song with her name, it’s going to be awkward because it’ll be in that melody, but her name Youyou will be a different tone, and hell it doesn’t match the hbd melody so it’s going to be a bit difficult.
This is also prob why the happy birthday song in mandarin Chinese doesn’t use the person’s name, it just repeats “Zhu ni sheng ri kuai le” (happy birthday to you) four times LOL.
This is not a pun.
Good thing there’s no issue if the song is sung in Chinese.
What day is today? It’s Tu Youyou’s birthday, what a day for a birthday, let’s all have some cake!
^….^and ^you ^smell ^like ^one ^too
Is there an echo in the room?
Well actually
图悠悠，祝你生日快啦
Easier in Chinese I would imagine.
祝你生日快乐。。。
祝你生日快乐。。。
Hmmm…. I don’t get it
Not a “Chinese chemist” but a goddamn Noble prize winner… at least put some respect when making a joke
Happy BIRRRTH-day to Tuu-uuuuu..
.. hmm..
Good one!
Old white people “humor”
To me Barry
Pretty simple in German.
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück
Zum Geburtstag liebe Tuyouyou.
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück.
Seems like it’d be fun
Happy birthday to tu youyou~
That’s when you just shorten it to “you,” and then each line ends with her name. Fuck tue tongue twister.
To her her.
Happy birthday to you
Squashed tomatoes and stew
Bread and butter in the gutter
Happy birthday to you
And she won a Nobel prize.
The record keeps sticking …
What day is today? It’s Tu Youyou’s birthday! What a day for a birthday!! Let’s go eat some cake!!
Oh the horror.
I hope she got to meet the Chuckle Brothers
“Who do I give this to?”
Tu Youyou
“To me?”
No, to Tu Youyou.
Fuck you too Tu Youyou
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the pronunciation is more like “too-yo-yo” than “too-you-you”. Sorry to rain of the meme parade 😅
This Made My Aunt Scream!
Basically like [Gemma Pell]
) then
Thank you for calling “Thank you for calling, how may I help you?”, How may I help you?
American here and I know someone named Hai. It’s really fun to say “Hi Hai” whenever I see him. 😉
Looks like captcha img
More like a tongue twister
Boldog, boldog, boldog szuletesnapot.
Kivanok neked meg sok ilyen szep napot.
H b 2 u,
H b 2 u,
H b 2 u u,
H b 2 u.
Kthxbaiii
Aside from the song, imagine youre going about your day and people just keep saying
“Happy birthday to”
“Happy birthday to”
Happy birthday to who?!?
No. No, we don’t.
Imma change my name legally to this just so nobody will sing me Happy Birthday in public
I think it can be achieved with a backup vocal singing an additional “you” at the end.
Happy Birthday to you (you)
Happy birthday to you (you)
Happy birthday, dear tu you (you)
Happy birthday to you (yooou)
Probably only weird if there’s that one person (which there always is) that does the “TO YOU, TO YOU” background shout during the song.
Cause then it’s like…
Happy Birthday to you (TO YOU, TO YOU… BUT NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH “TO YOUYOU” WHICH IS IN FACT YOUR NAME, BUT I’M NOT SINGING THAT PART DURING THIS PARTICULAR SECTION IN THE SONG)
Presumably you’d be singing it in Chinese, which wouldn’t be a problem
Singing this in a tunnel would go crazy
Ahahaha ayy zed enns am i right, lads??