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Instructions unclear, posted the Captain. (startrek.website)

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[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

It's from Red Dwarf, a British scifi comedy from the late 80s-90s. It's their take on fake future swears.

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 9 months ago

I figured out what's missing. He needs a shiny H on his forehead.

[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's short for smegma, i.e. dick cheese.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not, actually. Some people thought it was, but apparently the creators had never heard of smegma before and it was just an unfortunate coincidence.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The creators may claim as much, but...

Lexicographer Tony Thorne, in his 1990 Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (ISBN 0-7475-2856-X), reports instances of "smeg" (and derivatives) being used as a term of "mild contempt and even affection" among "schoolboys, students and punks" as early as the mid-1970s — a decade or so prior to the inception of the Red Dwarf phenomenon — and claims unequivocally that the etymology of the term traces back to "smegma".

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Alright, alright, people coming out of the woodwork to tell me about smegma, Jesus. You win the dick cheese argument. 'Gratz.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

And people say this server doesn't have any value!

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, my friend, smegma is and has been a word and it has a meaning.

They chose it as an obscure and disgusting word to use as an insult.

Smegma is the thick, white, cheesy substance that collects under the foreskin of the penis.

So if you're uncircumsized, and have ever not washed your dick in a few days, you're intimately familiar with what smegma is.

It is categorically not a made-up "future swear."