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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 -美坛奇葩- ♂ (68 bytes) () 05/27/2011 postreply 20:06:30

• 奇葩，I beg to differ -非文学青年- ♀ (182 bytes) () 05/27/2011 postreply 20:21:55

• Not a bar joke -学英语3151- ♀ (173 bytes) () 05/28/2011 postreply 21:33:58

• agree. 绝对不是behind bars里的bar -hahaman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/29/2011 postreply 00:09:56