# Can't sleep? Maybe you need "spleep" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928 "2010-03-10T00:06:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/41 "2010-03-19T18:24:23Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The really weird part is that the life coach posted his spleep entry back in September, but this woman has been using the word since at least February 2009. It must be an independent private joke. It’s an upgrade from English 2.2 to 2.3 or even 3.0 Why weren’t we notified? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/42 "2010-03-19T19:37:17Z")
It’s catching. I was about to email the website. I tend to use an email address that is designed for spam. It has the word ‘spam’ in it. I typed it as ‘pjlobley\_splam@manx.net’ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/43 "2010-03-19T20:04:56Z")
Before I read this thread, I was thinking about going to New York. Then I got that song in my head. Then I read this. And now I’m singing “I want to wake up in the city that never spleeps.” ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/44 "2010-03-19T20:07:50Z")
I’m springing spexy back. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/45 "2010-03-20T17:37:03Z")
I think he has a spleech imediment. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/46 "2010-03-20T23:54:28Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > Yes. What the hell is this. That’s a grown woman writing that blog, with very frequent, fairly lengthy, and otherwise generally well written posts. But she seems to try to find any way possible to use the word “Spleep”, with no explanation, as though its assumed by all that spleep is the correct word. Unlike the the example in the OP, spleep is the only form to be found. Not one sleep, even by accident. Over 40 Spleeps! What is happening? What is this madness? I think she’s probably picked it up from Fawlty Towers (mentioned upthread by **Dervorin** ), and I think the article that is the topic of this thread is coincidentally similar because of some careless editing. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/47 "2010-03-21T04:46:49Z")
I’ve heard whispers of spleeping in the Bangkok bars, but until I now I thought it simply an Urban Legend. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/48 "2010-03-21T19:47:01Z")
Maybe he’s a fan of Aspleep at the Wlheel. Also, I believe that Shkakespreare had more to say on the subject of spleep: > [@](#): > > King Henry IV, Part II > Act III, Scene I > > O spleep, O gtlentle spleep, > Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, > That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down > And spteep my snenses in forgetfulness? > Why rather, spleep, liest thou in skmoky cbribs, > Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee > And hush’d with bzuzzing night-flies to thy sblumber, > Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, > Under the canopies of costly state, > And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody? > O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile > In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch > A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell? > Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast > Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains > In cradle of the rude imperious surge > And in the visitation of the winds, > Who take the ruffian billows by the top, > Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them > With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, > That, with the hurly, death itself awakes? > Canst thou, O prartial spleep, give thy rpepose > To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, > And in the calmest and most stillest night, > With all appliances and means to boot, > Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! > Uneasy lies the hdead that wears a crnown. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/49 "2010-03-22T01:01:02Z")
This is crazy. I am pretty sure my last girlfriend dumped me because I _splept_, while she could only spleep. It was odd to be quizzed on the subject, and odder that it created so much tension. ---
**Author:** ![Meow\_Max](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Meow\_Max](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meow_Max)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/50 "2010-03-22T04:13:58Z")
So, if you have trouble spleeping, do you try counting spheep? Or, maybe you can take a spleeping spill. Still, you can always trying drink a gplass of wparm mpilk to help you get to spleep. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/51 "2010-03-22T12:42:18Z")
I spleeping [with] your dpog. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/52 "2010-03-22T13:49:38Z")
New research on alcohol: > [@](#): > > Stop drinking alcohol; alcohol is a depressant and can interfere with **spleep** hormones; I bet you didn’t even know that you had spleep hormones… ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/53 "2010-03-22T15:31:27Z")
_The woods are lovely, dark and **dpeep** But I have promises to **kpeep** And miles to go before I **spleep** And miles to go before I **spleep** _ Sptopping by Woods on a Spnowy Evening ~with sincere apologies to Robert Frost ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/54 "2010-03-22T15:42:28Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > amberlamps Whoa, Black Betty! > [@statsman1982](#): > > amberlamps Whoa, Black Betty! ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/55 "2010-03-23T05:23:44Z")
I wish **Spuperfluous Psarentheses** would chime in. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/56 "2010-03-26T18:44:51Z")
In the Fawlty Towers episode “Basil the Rat”, John Cleese spelled out s-l-e-e-p and Manuel, the Spanish waiter, construed it as ‘spleep’, and was highly puzzled. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/57 "2010-03-26T21:07:22Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Whoa, Black Betty!Whoa, Black Betty! HA!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928.md?page=2)