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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 W, h9 c& f+ p
! j, a2 b! B4 pI'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.) J9 n; y+ F0 \! O7 X% U, ~# ?
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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. @) z4 _" N6 i1 D7 ^) d. X5 u
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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:3 Y! ?( v- D8 T5 q
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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6 ~/ W' Q' z' IAnd the second one was:
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2 }; f, K* _; V6 r"What's the 2nd Amendment?"" W8 a. L0 f' V% f1 {$ {
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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6 T4 H/ ]/ V) w2 CI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?3 A r Z- P, O7 e, s) \4 `
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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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1 M/ H4 ?. [; N( gSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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8 a2 N6 P* f! a# XNow 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.
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference: Q* |8 n9 \8 [9 q) @
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.$ b* ~, w, g: l9 A# H' z
' x5 [& K2 s6 F% W! A& ^* L. f8 FJoe 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.. M; V8 c, U" ^) H9 x$ F5 A' p
# R( S2 Y, Q( P" u, EThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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