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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 Q% Q h: ?' B: A: h; W
. F/ _" S, x" II'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.0 p- X% N! Y9 S3 X8 Q" g5 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:0 @- Z9 e& |9 J, e
9 j; b$ \% }0 P' ]7 p1 e"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"0 I& }$ V& n# }" U/ s# H
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?5 K7 S7 W9 X" ~: T
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?", I% r- ~4 \: p3 a- R
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?! W) d3 M5 w( u _
m9 c- _8 q; O" t2 D( \& l( F"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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5 H# @* i2 c) d/ C b. y7 bI 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!; ]) j" q# \- \% C' x
9 ]8 b8 E2 u) Q- o: }$ RI 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?"
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; m8 H9 R! j4 F+ u9 |, nNow 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./ S& ~, {. R) ^- V, e$ m4 l) {
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Thank you very much!9 ~ g& E. E2 y5 h! h
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:% l8 j: t/ p8 ^8 I1 P0 A
$ d& ]0 C1 l. j1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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6 ?! T$ A' w9 M" j [2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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2 d. L D# [, f3 L"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.2 g, z! v/ v$ a8 @0 ^! i
. F- M& }, L& o8 |" M0 zJoe 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".1 {9 h C1 A) S H4 @& w
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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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2 I* o1 V4 `8 X6 m2 n5 VThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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