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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.! o1 U/ U0 b; p! o# _6 M2 e: G
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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.
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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.
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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:& S% r: e: i) x9 t
* M/ C0 G+ \! ^9 H"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"3 r0 v4 s" t% _
, ]0 u. Z7 ?, {1 S. L jI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?/ p+ u; P& a' n% |, s4 p5 C2 v( `
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And the second one was:7 y% h' _1 B( a% Y2 [+ \* h. \
- U7 q6 C8 d9 K* a: g( e"What's the 2nd Amendment?"( |: v6 s5 |4 y) l- y. T6 z
! k# _9 [; _- w1 ~I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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9 p2 ~5 d8 g; d5 Q e) E"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I 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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' R& a& }; {! e. C; W8 |So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"5 \0 u+ W# w$ c' y) O% D5 k4 s2 e
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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.* H- \; k5 c1 M/ R' P) b
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Thank you very much!0 g! p$ r6 a$ u9 _' r8 i9 n
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[1 s9 T) D' ^- e+ Y0 F; \+ KImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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9 x; u& e5 p, t# b; G1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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$ t5 }) i/ T5 o; l# ~% }# n& g8 g3 p7 r2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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( t1 C3 R. B( j& m N"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.2 U2 H, M; G1 d( i: G+ }4 g
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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.
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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