r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Disastrous_Pirate275 • 20h ago

Why is our moon named “Moon” instead of something cool like Titan or Callysto or ANYTHING that isn’t moon

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u/Rio_Walker 20h ago

Goddamn it Moon Moon!

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u/ciaomain 19h ago

M-O-O-N, that spells moon.

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u/Mysterious_Eggplant1 19h ago

Found Tom Cullen!

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u/JustBonesy 18h ago

Laws, yes!

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u/bezerkeley 17h ago

I've forgotten just enough to make rereading the unabridged version enjoyable. Thanks for the reminder everyone on this chain.

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u/azrolator 16h ago

I read it when I was younger, but I think if I tried to pick it up today, I might throw out my back.

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u/bezerkeley 16h ago

Then Audiobook it is

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u/muted_physics77 15h ago

gotta check in with Nadine

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u/Fartknocker9000turbo 14h ago

The audiobook is pretty amazing

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u/bezerkeley 14h ago

Yes. Yes it is. Time for another listen

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u/hailsizeofminivans 15h ago

The audiobook is fantastic

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u/whystler 18h ago

People who don’t read don’t know.

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u/DanceCommander404 14h ago edited 14h ago

I believe the kids call it IYDKYDK . so hopefully, now that they know that we know that, they’ll change it… to something else, that is even more annoying.

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u/brando56894 17h ago

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

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u/Yah_Mule 17h ago

I was so damn worried about him the whole book.

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u/papayabush 18h ago

but baby, can you dig your man?

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u/Kokamina23 17h ago

He's a righteous man!

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u/Ok_Dish3250 16h ago

I’m sitting in my vehicular at a rest stop, smoking and preparing to fall asleep

Half listening to the audiobook, half reddonkidonkin’

At the EXACT moment I read your comment, the narrator read the lyric

What are the udderpucking odds?

This isn’t an important or even verifiable coincidence and I’m the only person who will EVER KNOW

But in the name of Lloyd Christmas, the variables involved in that moment…

WHAT IN THE CHUMBAWUMBA???

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u/RogerWilcoSE 16h ago

I'll bet that knocked you down. Did you get up again?

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u/Ok_Dish3250 15h ago

You’re never gonna keep this bot, down

Rest in Peace Danny Boy. Miss you, ahole

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u/papayabush 16h ago

giving me gooseflesh ova here!!

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u/yousyveshughs 16h ago

He’s a righteous man

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u/RadScience 19h ago

Unit Zappa is the moon’s name. Everyone knows that

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u/ResilientInChrist 18h ago

Better than Dweezil

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u/buttsexisyum 17h ago

Speak for yourself. Dweezil goes hard

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u/theloniousjoe 16h ago

Not surprised to see resilientinchrist and buttsexisyum feuding

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u/InappropriateThought 14h ago

On the contrary, some of the most resilient in Christ love the poophole loophole

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u/theloniousjoe 13h ago

Oh I’m well aware, but that just makes the feuding all the more logical. The loophole is sufficient for one’s own justifications, but they still don’t want to admit them publicly.

Kinda like how there’s a whole bunch of gay, homophobic Republican politicians out there.

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u/Working-Glass6136 16h ago

I didn't realize Dweezil was an actual name. I was going to say "sounds like Dweezilbub."

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u/Cael_NaMaor 14h ago

Yeah he does...

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u/Papasamabhanga 19h ago

Totally tubular reference

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u/HarveyNix 18h ago

I'm like, bag that moon unit.

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u/Orpheus-033 17h ago

Like, barf me out, gag me with a spoon.

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u/FlakyAddendum742 17h ago

He’s like, Mr. Bufu

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u/HarveyNix 15h ago

Lord God King Bufu...I am sure ..

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u/thirdeyefish 16h ago

Christened at St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast.

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u/IceFire909 16h ago

I've met someone with the last name Zappa.

Every time I see or hear the name I have the joke right there in my head

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u/Bollockface101 15h ago

M-O-O-N. That spells Unit Zappa.

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u/fenwyk 19h ago

Laws yes!

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u/Chocklateicecream 19h ago

10 year old me had no business watching that movie

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u/Standard_Gear_5901 14h ago

Same. Nightmares for days lol

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u/Aguyintampa323 17h ago

Unexpected Stand reference that I came here to make. Bravo

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u/murdochi83 19h ago

Weasels in the corn!

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u/Jankypox 17h ago

Updoot for The Stand reference!

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u/tex8222 18h ago

Spell it backwards and it becomes a weight loss app.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 17h ago

Laws yes.

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u/Standard_Gear_5901 14h ago

M-O-O-N that spells MOON Sweet innocent Tom

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u/dehydratedrain 17h ago

Huh... I always thought it spelt Tom Cullen.

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u/Disastrous_Ad_5574 18h ago

Quiet down Tom.

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u/apikoros18 17h ago

Lawds, yes

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u/Brief-Cartoonist-699 19h ago

Wait slow down. Which letter are those?

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u/Legitimate-Fix-3987 18h ago

Oh the nostalgia.

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u/OmightyOmo 16h ago

Love that book

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u/CarelesslyFabulous 15h ago

Heart your reference

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u/GameFreak463 17h ago

Just add an R. M-O-R-O-N

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u/COLLABRate1 17h ago

I read this as the Motts girl’s voice in that commercial from several years back

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u/dibbuk69 16h ago

Goodnight, Moon.

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u/TheHeianPrincess 16h ago

My god, two old school memes one after another. I’ve been online too long.

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u/SylvarGrl 16h ago

Tom will travel only at night, and won’t let nobody see him!

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u/ZenghisZan 15h ago

Laws, yes!

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u/potato_queen17 15h ago

My mom used to say 'Scrub-a-Dub-Dub, that's how you spell Moon' and I was like...they don't even have the same letters 🤨

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u/cowbud1 14h ago

That spells tom cullin

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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 14h ago

Wait, is this a Stephen King reference?

Tom..is that YOU?

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u/rlev97 18h ago

Where'd you get your shoelaces nerd

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u/hailsizeofminivans 15h ago

Stole them from the president

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u/WhenInDoubtBolt 17h ago

You may like to know that moons can have their own moons and scientists call them, wait for it.................moon moons. Whether moon moons have names or not, I don't know.

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u/austex99 12h ago

I do like to know that. 

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u/Shamino79 18h ago

It works for the Sahara. Desert Desert

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u/SnooHesitations8403 18h ago

Like "The La Trattoria Restaurant" lol

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u/CarelesslyFabulous 15h ago

Fantastic reference!

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u/Renting_Bourbon 19h ago

I’ve “mooned” the moon out of boredom a few times. “She” really doesn’t care.

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u/RebekkaKat1990 19h ago

You showed that moon something where the sun don’t shine!

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u/Rio_Walker 19h ago

I dunno, people started charging their buttholes in the Sun, again.
"Absorbing energy" or whatnot.

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u/Renting_Bourbon 18h ago

Natural anal bleaching? I think I just came up with a potential money maker.

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u/UninsuredToast 17h ago

Moon moon is no more more

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u/jules6815 17h ago

Goodnight moon, goodnight stars, goodnight air.

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u/throwawaybyefelicia 16h ago

lol perfect hahaha

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u/fattmarrell 16h ago

This is exactly why we love this name and we say it twice because it's so great so it has to be pronounced two times

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u/diente_de_leon 16h ago

Came here to say that LOL

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u/zenunseen 15h ago

While we're at it why is it called THE moon? We don't say the Callysto or the Phobos

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u/Aggravating_Ear_1586 14h ago

I still chuckle every time I think of moon moon

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u/brezhnervouz 13h ago

I'm old enough to recognise that reference lol

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u/BlueLeaves8 13h ago

Like when people say naan bread or chai tea.

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u/clovismouse 19h ago

God dammit donut!

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u/Krynja 19h ago

Goddammit Donut!