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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.0 P$ E- E+ X3 S0 V9 Z* _: g
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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." O6 e- g$ m4 t* Q3 q
+ c3 A) _8 z7 J4 t3 k$ NI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like: y& \- B5 Q N1 E* q _
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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+ @+ N: W n V! ?; h' s5 [1 ZI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?3 C( \" C3 O5 Z ~4 }9 P
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And the second one was:! w, i4 f. m; f4 y. S5 Q
. L* j0 r1 [& d$ q"What's the 2nd Amendment?", u. b& y n* y+ q1 t6 |2 J6 m
% ~! ^: I" E4 u+ rI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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/ @7 a9 V7 Q6 z+ a, x$ mI 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?"
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. A# `; F- g+ y3 B: t/ D" A: HNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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) { Z, ~1 B8 H* T4 ]7 o5 xThis 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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% [" L, h+ W% Q& X: a& ~Thank you very much!4 l5 m$ p0 V/ ?0 s3 H) Q
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9 [- X# W# Y: _8 ?Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.. M5 _# i* f5 K/ w% c. V7 F
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.- M; a0 `: T' k# e
5 \5 L; m7 N* B: C0 n6 p' q"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.7 g' Y4 d$ ? B3 _5 D3 s$ J
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Joe 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./ y7 ~1 X! t6 X( G/ k
, I( s( ~4 ?; e! o# {The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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