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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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6 c6 J: R9 X$ ~4 tI'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.' n1 J8 B) P- t6 m# F
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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 d( U3 {$ @" L( K4 q* ~3 X( |! f
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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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. O4 l" E# l5 vI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:
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1 H: j* ^) T3 H# \: T+ w. c"What's the 2nd Amendment?" G$ e% {- F% V8 p$ c4 b
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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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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?4 ~+ F9 J' n, W g1 k( ?1 G
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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!9 T6 P& r2 s I
; O/ _( _+ k) g: G5 hI 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."3 E) Q& w( O8 K# J6 B c2 j
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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"1 o6 N8 Z8 W+ \5 \3 d
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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.2 u4 q# d) }! ]' ~* e8 v
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Thank you very much!
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+ f% n- M. {2 K4 P" [/ \7 lImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill., R8 z0 ], C/ X4 P' `# B
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.5 k, ~" ? w$ L2 S; S, k1 R
( A& |) b8 }( W' e: Y) o8 p"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.6 \. y! H+ n6 O2 S/ ^6 C
# H7 W. n0 j7 B/ R9 q: nJoe 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". Y I" g) M* q4 c( H0 m0 B
0 n+ Q5 j# y! ^$ a1 `$ pRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.
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4 z& k) \$ L' EThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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