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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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I'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.6 b2 s" h" h( s6 x
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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.& R+ v0 R% G- G; W
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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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! R0 G" p" L& v"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"/ a1 R$ Z3 o0 g7 k+ I( p
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:1 {4 x2 X8 `! o+ c1 m/ s$ X
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"5 W$ _% M* D; C& e$ P% Z' K1 P
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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; _6 Y, E3 `! @% Y2 E7 M"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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5 k/ S6 ]+ E- B; OI 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!
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" g, ^7 `3 s I1 D- yI 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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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”- v5 R$ u' {5 D5 z
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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.1 F9 ^* j5 {' T' I7 N0 u- ~
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Thank you very much!
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; |$ p0 e, V5 \Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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U/ `5 A- I( G7 [1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.' t% ]1 |# r ^/ s/ o; ^$ z6 d5 H1 t
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.2 @. U i5 k4 a8 E) z5 J" u
9 u5 {) j" F+ h9 u- w# {Joe 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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- w& k1 q/ q, I: B& V3 \8 v" z1 \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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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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