A pearl earring and a small brass pineapple earring hanging from a black ribbon above a pink saucer.

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Rita Rudner

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Rudner jokes that a pierced ear is a kind of marriage training. Pain and jewelry shopping are the two skills it supposedly builds. The humour comes from treating a simple earring as serious relationship preparation.

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