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[Yoshiyuki]

Hi. Could anyone kindly tell me what is funny about this joke?

[asterix]

People who use cocaine chop it up with a credit card or razor blade and lay it out in thin "lines" which they then sniff up their noses with a rolled up banknote, straw, or something similar.
This is sometimes called, "Doing lines".

[CP]

And when an actor practices or rehearses his part, he reads his lines from the script and tries to remember them. This is called reading lines. So this is a lame pun on doing lines / reading lines.
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[Yoshiyuki]

Thank you , CP and asterix, for your information about the pun on the word "lines," which I couldn't have gotten in any other way than being a drug addict myself. Thank you again.

[asterix]

I'm pleased that we were able to save you from learning about it the hard way!