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Hi everybody. So... I'm Irish. I read a report recently that a man reaches his sexual peak at age 18 but I didn't know this... until I was twenty five. So the world will never know what a stud I was. No one took a bite out of this peach when it was ripe.
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- V, u' f, E$ Q* F( KI'm not good at sports, but I love parallel parking... because unlike sports, when you are parallel parking, the worse you are, the more people that are rooting for you.
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I'm an immigrant and I used to drive an old car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, "if you don't speak English, go home!" I didn't notice it for two years.# o* g/ G, D" Y; j
7 [4 j; x, b% {I worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:, G# Q: u# _. k6 F. t8 s
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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/ r& z; D# \( T7 n- s( F* r' BI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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7 S- K4 w5 z5 u' e"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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+ [' D) R% P; y0 AI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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I have a family now, but I used to be scared of marriage. I was like wow... 50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever!/ J; i" {9 j' W) b$ z3 i
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I just had my first child last year. I was really amazed at it. I was in the delivery room, holding up my son, thinking to myself, "Wow... He was just born... And he's already a U.S citizen."
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3 a7 j7 A/ J$ y4 t, k, c. s3 MSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"0 n9 F- G# W' ^" i5 Y$ _: v7 j% K- D
- ~# E; I% [5 E% JNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”- @( [* W' y) q& G' M2 u
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This sign is basically a threat. It just says that I have a screaming baby and a nagging wife and that I am not afraid of dying anymore.+ {- D4 z( D8 z# R6 o, a; ^
; ^1 J4 ]4 ^. u& h* k- T- oThank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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$ {; h V# a1 c1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms." r7 @" U3 q4 Q4 k- S( T9 _) |9 Z
, Q" s1 h) z, X: M. j+ a5 `"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.) ` C# f$ _& Q- }
3 \2 c' S7 ^( P A6 t2 T/ G& mJoe Wong used this case in a form of a question: What is Roe vs. Wade? To which he cleverly delivered the punchline "Two ways of coming to the United States".
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Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.
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# }" |( C8 k) b pThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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