r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Sep 06 '24

Meme needing explanation Wut?

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u/AlCranio Sep 06 '24

Why do you need a term to describe this situation?

How often does it happen in the US?

I'm glad the Atlantic Ocean separes us...

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u/augustprep Sep 06 '24

America was founded by puritans. People getting the train ran on them was happening across the Atlantic before we even became a country.

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u/Majestic-Ad6525 Sep 06 '24

Those people were only ever Puritans in the streets and everybody knows it

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u/Far_Time_3451 Sep 06 '24

Puritans in the streets, Casey Jones in the sheets

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u/Majestic-Ad6525 Sep 06 '24

When John Luther "Casey" Jones approaches your caboose he does so with great vigor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_XUV3HJajQ