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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.
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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.$ p- ]+ x7 V# r Z
# O: h5 J8 F: M+ @- o) Y }3 _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.- g% S5 G- F+ |" E
- F( p3 m4 A/ {" o7 `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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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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* X5 O" Y8 @, |2 g+ b' E5 SI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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$ M. d9 x/ n3 }* VAnd the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"% s6 m3 B6 E6 u6 b9 W: ], ~
* i4 q/ I- a) Z) DI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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) p: D* O" U I% T"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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& m! x+ }' e4 G* W) a. B' p8 kI 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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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"5 P" z' Z8 b* d/ H/ `. {
* d; n' e5 P6 y0 Q; zNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”5 X( n: r* _- @5 P; y
3 F/ u6 \5 }5 @* uThis 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.3 i/ G0 s! k! B! o
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Thank you very much!
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3 D! |( O2 I3 W8 o8 {) dImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:) v1 \! u6 z" F1 m8 [
3 Y9 u0 y" H* ?2 i# y3 H1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.! {3 J1 Y% v N% L
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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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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6 P7 }9 Z- n3 V: }! mJoe 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".0 c- |3 u3 F9 m- k' b" T
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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.+ } e; x( r2 ^" e, E
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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