# Explain this Chapelle joke to this white girl **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830 "2004-03-28T00:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/1 "2004-03-28T00:25:31Z")
Okay, I give up. I don’t know if I’m part of the joke or if I’ve been stunningly whooshed. Or both, I guess. A few weeks ago, me and a friend, also of the white female middle class persuasion, were watching Chapelle’s Show - the one with the Lil’ John skit, YEEEAHH!. Which really shouldn’t be funny, but it is and there you go. Chapelle said something about, I forget the exact wording, how they still let you say “Skee skee skee skee” (or however it might be spelled) on the radio because white people don’t know what it means yet. So we on the couch stared at each other for a bit and burst into gales of laughter, because, er, I guess we’re part of the joke. I know the song, but I’d just kind of thought it was nonsense syllables - what’s the mysterious dirty meaning? Is it common knowledge? We’ve been snickering about it for weeks, but I think the time has come to find out for good and certain. What’s the Straight Dope? (Please, I gotta know. My street cred depends on it!) ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/2 "2004-03-28T00:29:52Z")
I can’t tell you what it meant, because I haven’t seen that episode, but in his stand-up act, Chappelle jokes about just making slang up when he talks to white people. Maybe he was riffing off of that gag. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/3 "2004-03-28T00:31:46Z")
phssssshhhhtaaa You don’t know what \*that \* means?? Seriously? :rolleyes: Zsofia, you are _sooo_ white. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/4 "2004-03-28T00:32:40Z")
According to this [site](http://www.druguse.com/database.pdf) (pdf file), it means opium. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/5 "2004-03-28T00:49:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Zsofia, you are sooo white. You should see me dance. You have no _idea_, honey. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/6 "2004-03-28T01:00:13Z")
> [@](#): > > According to this site (pdf file), it means opium. People still do opium? By the way… damn! I know that the process of making, buying, and selling drugs lends itself to a proliferation of slang descriptions, but that’s a _lot_ of street names! ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/7 "2004-03-28T01:03:47Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > According to this [site](http://www.druguse.com/database.pdf) (pdf file), it means opium. Nope. First off, he’s saying “skeet” not skee. Now, you’re first clue as to what it means is the hand motions they use when they say it. Sort of a back and forth motion with a closed fist in the vicinity of the crotchal region. Anyway, to make a long story short, skeeting is when you ejaculate all over a woman after intercourse. ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/8 "2004-03-28T01:18:02Z")
Skeet = ejaculate. I’m a white girl, and I’m not too up-to-date on the slang terms that kids these days use (ha), and to tell you the truth, I don’t remember who told me what it meant. I think someone explained it to someone else in an LJ comment. Anyhow, [urbandictionary.com](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skeet&f=1) backs up that definition, as well as another skit on his show the other night (A Sesame Street parody, lots of puppets, one voiced by Snoop Dogg.) ---
**Author:** ![Tremmie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Tremmie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tremmie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/9 "2004-03-28T01:18:49Z")
If that wasn’t enough of a clue here are some of the lyrics from the hilarious Knee high park sketch from the last show: > [@](#): > > it feels like i have a million tiny kitty cats playing with my balls, > and then skeet skeet skeet all over the walls… ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/10 "2004-03-28T02:00:32Z")
Don’t feel bad. This black girl didn’t know what the hell he was talking about either. When I was a kid, we used to call being able to squirt out water between clinched teeth “skeeting”. How things have changed! ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/11 "2004-03-28T02:03:11Z")
Really, I didn’t have a clue as to what he was talking about. “Mommy guess what I learned today!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/12 "2004-03-28T05:33:24Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > When I was a kid, we used to call being able to squirt out water between clinched teeth “skeeting”. How things have changed! My cousin called it “gleeking” and spit, well, _spit_ at us instead of water. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/13 "2004-03-28T11:24:09Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > When I was a kid, we used to call being able to squirt out water between clinched teeth “skeeting”. How things have changed! You know, I bet there’s a connection. I can see that definition mutating into the current one. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/14 "2004-03-28T15:14:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Skeet = ejaculate. I’m shocked to hear this. And you say they play this on the radio? I’m certainly going to bring this up with the other white people at next week’s meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/15 "2004-03-28T19:04:58Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > I’m shocked to hear this. And you say they play this on the radio? I’m certainly going to bring this up with the other white people at next week’s meeting. Which was part of his joke. He did his white guy impression for when white people found out what the word meant - “My God! What have we done?!” Good times. And we called it gleeking, too, **angelicate**. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/16 "2004-03-28T19:46:33Z")
I think the old definitions of skeet and gleek are different. As I understood it, the squeezing water from between clenched teeth involved getting a mouthful of water and using air pressure to force it out between teeth. Gleeking involves moving the tongue behind the upper teeth to squirt saliva out. (Wow, gleeking is hard to explain…) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/17 "2004-03-29T00:53:22Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > I think the old definitions of skeet and gleek are different. As I understood it, the squeezing water from between clenched teeth involved getting a mouthful of water and using air pressure to force it out between teeth. Gleeking involves moving the tongue behind the upper teeth to squirt saliva out. (Wow, gleeking is hard to explain…) I was going to say something similar, except: Have you ever yawned real big, maybe while reading a book or newspaper, and noticed you’ve somehow sprayed a fine fist of spit all over the page? That’s gleeking, or at least it was where and when I grew up. It comes from the back of the tongue/mouth, not from between the teeth. When I was a kid, I knew a guy who could do it on command (I’ve only ever accidentally done it, despite marathon practice attempts when I was in grade school). Once, on a field trip, I watched him soak his math text book in this manner, until the thing was literally dripping. I have no idea how he was able to generate that much liquid: it was surely more than the body of a ten year old could possibly contain. I also did not realize, until I just now recalled the story, how utterly disgusting it was. At the time, it was one of the Ten Coolest Things I’d Ever Seen. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/18 "2004-03-29T02:02:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Have you ever yawned real big, maybe while reading a book or newspaper, and noticed you’ve somehow sprayed a fine fist of spit all over the page? That’s gleeking, or at least it was where and when I grew up. We called that “elephant spitting”. And thank you so much, everybody who answered my question. Although obviously I _am_ part of the joke. Must inform the secret council! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-chapelle-joke-to-this-white-girl/236830/19 "2004-03-29T04:43:53Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > People still do opium? Yes, and the rate of autogyro crashes caused by pilots under the influence is nothing short of scandalous. Ahoy, hoy.