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回答: Why is a joke? 由 維文 於 2011-05-26 22:10:33

In Obama's Westminster Hall speech, he began with:

"My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Prime Minister, my lords, and members of the House of Commons:

I have known few greater honors than the opportunity to address the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster Hall. I am told that the last three speakers here have been the Pope, Her Majesty the Queen, and Nelson Mandela -- which is either a very high bar or the beginning of a very funny joke."

Everyone laughed here. I don't know what is funny here. Could anyone help to translate it

into Chinese or explain ?

Thanks.

 

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The Pope, the Queen, and Nelson Mandela are all related to bars.   POPE and Queen are business names of night club bars; Nelson Mandela was once behind the bars (in jail). 

A lot of English jokes begin with “… walks in to a bar”.

 

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• Bar Jokes -美壇奇葩- ♂ 給 美壇奇葩 發送悄悄話 美壇奇葩 的博客首頁 (68 bytes) () 05/27/2011 postreply 20:06:30

• 奇葩，I beg to differ -非文學青年- ♀ 給 非文學青年 發送悄悄話 非文學青年 的博客首頁 (182 bytes) () 05/27/2011 postreply 20:21:55

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• agree. 絕對不是behind bars裏的bar -hahaman- ♀ 給 hahaman 發送悄悄話 hahaman 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2011 postreply 00:09:56

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