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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." \3 q5 a) [' _+ [4 D6 P8 O0 r; p
# T$ F; X7 C b' v- ?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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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.
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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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# v" ?9 _, d/ r1 Q: I"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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( y+ z# e6 {+ L: |I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?+ p% E) ~2 D, L; X8 Z1 p# A
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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) L. @' W! O* I8 E& \7 x0 z8 yI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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9 s! V+ x& r/ `6 l; |8 x+ c"What is Roe vs. Wade?"6 y3 Q' I' {2 @+ f% U; v8 f0 M8 U
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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."
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- Y9 t8 B7 p- n8 z a M1 ESo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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' H# H6 t* E8 Q1 r FNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”, `6 a8 I/ x# Y" C5 o2 w. Z
, c, o3 e! z) u* h; y9 r9 vThis 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.0 o/ k2 I! U5 u8 M4 e7 [3 c
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Thank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.2 w% F& g$ e, t7 S( E" r
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.8 J* w' D. ~. F4 F
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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".' \, |, I) _) Q: @$ ?
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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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5 T: I/ b3 Q/ n5 o' V; z0 M8 Q% tThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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