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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.6 }+ a2 ]( r' C4 b* z4 {
7 V u; |# P9 HI'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.! P* ~. C1 L) \- l! j
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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.- Q" w B9 y2 s. H; R+ X
$ t$ {$ _4 O8 L, }4 d3 U1 |! lI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:8 s2 G& L- a3 n5 d8 I! Z0 D1 X
. L. G/ k" ~, T" f"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"& a: t' H) E" x: b5 {! O- X; W! m
: V& o" W0 W0 m% v! |I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"& _7 T" M0 U) f$ Z# U' r
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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, G& Y! g$ Q+ H* z' l"What is Roe vs. Wade?"8 U* B- }$ ]7 K7 [1 W B9 r
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?' @3 ?2 L; r3 W l( P
2 v/ C0 y- @4 c2 }" ~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!' @5 Z+ X# K; u3 f7 Z2 Y
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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."0 X; q" Z# X4 F. |
% X' ?9 ^- v. W# M6 ~( m9 m3 V Y/ PSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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4 ^: i: Q2 y7 s3 q/ [1 J" yNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”) r3 N7 Z* K. r- z
2 L$ ?+ r1 b- M6 H/ @( w" F/ IThis 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. u' T, D3 D1 ^4 t1 c
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Thank you very much!- P$ x+ o7 d/ x5 z Q
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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4 ~) w( M$ r1 }# v! [& X; H"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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" Q5 B: L6 C5 TJoe 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".& _2 N( o9 m' F( ^7 E2 _- i
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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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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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