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Tara2 Posted 4 years ago
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I didn't have gas for the first time until I was 30

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Brian: Peter, you don't have a choice. Your unemployment is going to dry up soon. And she'll probably sense something's amiss when they repossess your house. You really oughta think of your family's welfare.
Peter: Jeez, Brian! That's a great idea!
Cuts to "Welfare Offices"
Welfare Employee: Okay, do you have any disabilities, past injuries, physical anomalies?
Peter: Uh... Oh, I didn't have gas for the first time until I was 30.

  

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Tara2 have gas have (the uncomfortable feeling of) gas in the stomach or intestines This feeling is normally relieved by expelling the gas either through the mouth or through 'the other end'. [ Nobody has gas where you live? What in the world do they call it?

  • Tara2 have gas have (the uncomfortable feeling of) gas in the stomach or intestines This feeling is normally relieved by expelling the gas either through the mouth or through 'the other end'.
  • [ Nobody has gas where you live?
  • What in the world do they call it?
  • ] CJ
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Tara2have gas

have (the uncomfortable feeling of) gas in the stomach or intestines

This feeling is normally relieved by expelling the gas either through the mouth or through 'the other end'.

[ Nobody has gas where you live? What in the world do they call it? ]

CJ

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Tara2Peter: Uh... Oh, I didn't have gas for the first time until I was 30.

Does it mean that Peter hasn't had gas at all for the first 30 years of his life?

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