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Better Nate...then lever.
You bastard.
Wow. I was so engrossed by the narrative that after one hour of listening to it, I genuinely felt betrayed.
I am tearing up lmao.
Ah, a shaggy dog story, those are the best.
I'm guessing that in some region of the world, 'lever' and 'never' rhyme with one another?
American here, and they rhyme. LEE-ver and NEE-ver.
NEE-ver lmao
Actually saying it out loud it kinda sounds like a BFE, Minnesota accent. Or maybe more Canadian. However my idea of Minnesota accent is based on the mom from Bobby's World and Uncle Joey's beaver.
I'm realizing again a few minutes later that 00s+ kids may not get either of those references. And Dave Coullier is Canadian and I think his beaver is too.
Edit again, I realize that the 00s+ kids that don't get the references would probably be more confused by me referencing two mens beavers.
Dave Coullier (sp?) was the actor who played the character Uncle Joey (Gladstone) in Full House, where he pretended to be the uncle to three little girls and lived in their house, with their dad Bob Sagat (of "the aristocrats" and "Rolling with Sagat"), after the mom died of mysterious circumstances. As the girls got older Uncle Joey started making videos where he stuck his hand into a beaver and used it as a puppet. Part of this gag usually revolved around various jokes about "wood". Eventually this got him to become a bit of a local celebrity, in the morning news and as a radio host.
Partly related fact, Alanis Morissette's album (and now Broadway Musical), Jagged Little Pill, was inspired by a bad breakup with Dave Coullier
In the US we pronounce 'lever' with a soft E (as in yellow) rather than a hard E sound (as in green) like you do in the UK.
Just another one of those weird US vs UK English things, but that pronunciation makes the joke work.
US English dialects mainly, though there may be pockets in other Anglophone places.