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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 ~* ?$ `+ Y8 Z: Y
- f$ w! A0 s4 o7 D# OI'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.. Z4 R% i8 B0 N( c+ H6 @
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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.- X) ?, f: G) d' S
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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:" z: Z& v- E: u5 U
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?* W& p% F( s1 o# ? n# u& P
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And the second one was:2 \5 i. N9 y' B3 @/ p5 e
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"* F! M$ S% f k; N- Z9 H
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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! A) e+ A0 A* ]"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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$ r: x' C) X |( x1 c. QI 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!/ G; p1 L8 B' @% C' v. F! b
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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."; N* Z4 A6 M3 I5 v
& J6 X1 h6 |9 C- f8 W1 BSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"9 P5 o6 W8 B, ]# T1 t, _7 w8 B$ u1 J
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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' P: K" R8 c" I$ `+ jThis 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.$ Y5 N% T% G6 Z( g
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Thank you very much!* F1 s: {0 u- R1 B* Z% [! Q2 y
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:2 `* k* O" U5 @6 P: W4 S: ^
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill. J% u D) _. f6 W. b
$ q8 o4 h9 ~$ }4 T5 P4 M) N2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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) A" T- x/ E& w1 K. u! n"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 d3 v" q8 A2 t! Y( ~4 dJoe 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.% |' p- l, _: Y' `3 r
0 o. r' I+ [; Y7 d& G* d5 Q! t* `# G8 aThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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