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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.# I; T1 ^" C, K
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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.
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4 b' d+ P" D2 e) }. `7 V% yI'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.& ` Q' |! w. C, n8 L
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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:5 [- ]6 X, Z4 T7 g
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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:) O" r" l" T/ R9 b3 @% w1 p! t
/ G9 W; C+ s9 |: o"What's the 2nd Amendment?"; q4 \1 n% c# T
9 f2 k3 H3 T- c, C `3 z/ L$ H. |1 P# OI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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I 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!
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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."% b4 g# ?( g7 D" {1 P& O
) Z! G' M% ^6 P) X$ ^3 F4 NSo 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.”, }8 x. d2 v7 \: k& O
+ @6 [; _ K0 s# ^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., Q; U5 \4 Z% {% U8 ^
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Thank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:+ b+ `+ x3 A# o Y, u
3 O1 g, [5 J" U5 G1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms., s# h5 L7 q' ~$ f
5 r8 I2 w+ \4 f! z: u2 v"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.3 G+ O: w0 ]8 F5 y9 _
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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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Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.1 u0 v7 N, G; S+ j+ p3 `
$ \5 w6 I8 k# W- \The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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