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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.9 C/ C# G9 x C( M1 y- h- x% ~+ g
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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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' D! W( A. j1 T" w/ m8 i; ZI'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.# S, {3 M6 v# W/ }4 M+ {8 Z
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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:: I M7 J* e# e, n5 ? q# ?
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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8 J- q; t3 F- j. O! X6 [. C" nI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?8 p# E' t' S% k7 Y; s
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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. c4 ], m+ ~# V% L) Z/ v- }I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?+ o- E; S. m2 r# v$ j- L1 v" h
' `! A. \# `& @% `"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?; a) V" o# z7 a" _5 L; x% R
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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!$ [' y7 k3 a. _; x) x5 E4 p' ^: J
7 K: {8 G' K( E0 }- ?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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, i! {: W) N# }. V2 ~- n& P4 tSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"3 r5 ?# N$ @- |, s
8 Z5 Y7 b1 `: i# C4 hNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”/ [' u: p7 N2 L5 ?; s% c
" L, L7 L5 T' GThis 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.4 Y0 \7 |, T% n# \ l8 _6 }
( g3 R* E' q) _* d$ wThank you very much!( w3 C$ C" v* ?
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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$ R4 m. I( X5 D, ]) C+ G1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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' j) Q2 l$ h: p! X: {2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.' D) Y( {* ~- n! ^! @
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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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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9 ~; O9 e' ^9 F RRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.$ x( g* ?$ F6 ?) z4 i# Y( N# v" o
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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