Peter: Mr.weed, i cant come to work today, i was in a terrible plane crash. my entire family was killed and i am a vegetable.
Brian: oh please peter your excuses are lamer than FDrs legs
[Meg, peter and chris all get surprized!]
Brian: too soon? [kinda sorry and embarrased]
and why does he "too soon" ... i assume this has a good story!
Answers:
FDR had polio and his legs were worthless. He could not walk without braces and leaning on someone, so that is pretty lame (or pathetic)
If something is "lame" it isn't going to walk (get believed).
FDR was a US president who was in a wheelchair due to being paralyzed from polio which he got as a child.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a survivor of polio. In later life he couldn't walk and was confined to a wheelchair, including during the final years of his presidency. Brian was alluding to the fact that FDR was too recent a hero to be joked about. It might be funnier down the road, but probably not.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was crippled by Polio. Despite this infirmity, he went on to be one of the greatest Presidents in US History. His wife, Eleanor, was said to have helped him run the country.
It's a pun. FDR's legs were lame (unable to be used) due to polio. The above joke was lame (ridiculous).
lame, means to not be able to walk but it also means stupid or not believable. FDR the president was unable to walk!! that is really insulting!! but it means Peter's excuse is stupid and not going to work or "walk". FDR was not stupid but could not walk GET IT NOW?? he says too soon because he means it is to soon after... the kids were surprised Brian would say that
^FDR - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had polio and used a wheelchair.
Not funny.
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