A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Grandpa, why are there only 49 stars on that flag?

— The Simpsons · 1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks Grandpa why a flag has only forty-nine stars. The question notices a number and seeks an explanation, without supplying one.

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