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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.( b* R4 P3 v+ G1 R+ o
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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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6 v( W9 }: \- }" |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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6 B9 r& _4 v" ^8 ]( Z/ j' Z' hI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:- T3 f$ m) d9 B$ N7 c. K# P
9 T9 N/ b# L! M; K"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"9 \& V" r+ ]5 f, N$ ?. F
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:% {* y1 x, T. L; l, O; h
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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3 z4 I/ _$ I8 R4 TI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"# |, d6 R0 N, d. R" |. P
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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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* A, ~5 d7 x6 p0 p! XI 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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& M. ?4 o. M+ lSo 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.”
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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.& U# @2 N) A3 _: @8 f, T K
! L/ C: `! a( s/ e3 hThank you very much!5 w: k* g' |+ ~5 M
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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`* c8 u7 b8 C* `0 c$ q1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill. i7 I- I6 r* u" y
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms." k8 N' p a- Q
) A5 b+ S& W( Q( z$ m"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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5 _8 w3 H' n& H* ]1 X6 RJoe 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.
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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