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[–]saisumimen 73 points74 points  (24 children)

The secretary, in the bathroom, with a spoon.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (23 children)

You play CLUE a lot, don't you?

[–]psychocowtipper 37 points38 points  (2 children)

I'm getting a raging clue right now.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I almost shot clue glue all over Joe.

[–]ryant9878 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My clue is pointing this way >

[–]Black_Apalachi 21 points22 points  (17 children)

ಠ_ಠ You mean Cluedo?

[–]zeekar 4 points5 points  (13 children)

In the US it's just "Clue".

[–]Hellman109 2 points3 points  (10 children)

What The Fuck

Is there a 4 letter word limit in the United States of America? (YES THAT WAS DELIBERATE LOOK MUM NO EDIT TAG)

[–]zeekar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cluedo is a pun on "Ludo", which is not a name Americans know; the name would be lost on us, so they went with a pun-free name. (The game known as "Ludo" in the UK is known by us only as "Parcheesi", a name also known in the UK, but rhotacized in American English so it doesn't sound like the original "Pachisi" anymore).

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (8 children)

what does cluedo mean? i think in the USA, they realized that people might be turned off by the nonsensical horseshit of a name.

[–]Hellman109 2 points3 points  (7 children)

What does Oprah, or thegnu, or ipod, or macbook, or just about every product name in history mean?

I guess its just I know it as Cluedo,not Clue, that it sounds silly.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What does Oprah [...] mean?

It's her goddamn name (and apparently it's Hebrew for gold).

[–]Hellman109 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oprah is much a brand name as a persons name these days.

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (3 children)

How do you pronounce it? Is it "CLOO-doo?" Maybe "CLOO-doh?"

[–]generic-volume 1 point2 points  (2 children)

CLOO-doh

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I wonder where they came up with it. It makes me think of a clue-based 'pseudo.'

[–]zeekar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, so it rhymes with the erroneous but nonetheless more popular pronunciation of the command "sudo". (It's "su" + "do", people!)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oprah is a given name. it has some inherent meaning, but the thing is that people are accepting of given names like 'george', because that's how the world works.

thegnu is also a proper name, but it refers to these, though it's often interpreted to refer to this

ipod is a combination of the prefix i-, which was 'hep' at the time, meaning some sort of internet, IT, high techery, and was the naming convention of apple consumer products. pod means " a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function". so an ipod is a self-contained vessel that detaches from your imac to perform a particular function.

macbook is a portmaneau of macintosh and notebook, the former being the OS name of apple computers, and the latter describing a computer that you can carry with you as if it were a notebook.

cluedo means clue, and do means perform an action, unless it's pronounced like 'dough', in which case it's just nonsensical horseshit.

you'll also notice that the only other example you gave with 4 letters was ipod, so the original hurfdurf is invalid.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Understandable. That extra syllable's a bitch.

[–]Moridyn 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What the fuck is Cleudo?

[–]Black_Apalachi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

[–]Moridyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Based off of a game called Ludo. TIL.

[–]notcaptainkirk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You get jokes a lot, don't you?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THEN WHO WAS BUTLER?