Could you help me please to understand the real sense of this joke?
Lucy: Well, let me see, it was on Flag Day.I don't remember the year but our flag still have forty-eight stars!
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Could you help me please to understand the real sense of this joke?
Lucy: Well, let me see, it was on Flag Day. I don't remember the year, but our flag still had forty-eight stars!The flag of the United States bears a star for each of the states. The person speaking is trying to remember when something happened. All he can remember is that the event occurred on Flag Day, an annual event when Americans especially celebrate their flag. He cannot even remember the year the event occurred, but he does remember that the event happened on Flag Day, and that the flag at that time had 48 stars. The American flag had 48 stars between 1912 and 1959.
It is amusing that the speaker dated an event by referring to the number of stars on his country's flag, and it is also amusing that the best answer he can give spans 47 years.
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In 1959 Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states into the US. Before that time, the US flag had only 48 stars. Since then the flag has had 50 stars. Therefore, the speaker is indicating it was 1959 or before.
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