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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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% j. D7 N3 P2 w( Y6 X0 ]2 mI'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.' M/ B; ` g1 @5 t
! m3 I3 w' @# O7 g5 T: rI'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:$ @8 {7 o) D% a2 X1 c4 {& Q) [" l
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"9 ? o9 `) N$ ?, U
& N! M# ?3 r% ^0 J% E4 }I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?) V% t' Q1 v% ~' N2 S
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And the second one was:, U" t, m' g" R- o: U
3 V2 J, ]9 q7 m) i! K3 s8 \"What's the 2nd Amendment?"( g6 H. T6 Z$ Z" \/ a' B
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?4 ^. Y' B/ @( Z1 q/ M
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"9 e( F' J* b: D( ^( [0 M
- W8 \0 d( T J( TI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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7 m. L i% S1 y \% f0 X1 EI 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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; _( \% a! }( N3 fI 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?"# P/ E* I# C3 l! ?% F
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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6 }5 O! H. z& W3 V) G1 |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.
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: \) s/ p" Z4 z& |8 L6 ?+ LThank you very much!+ c- W% n8 I. z$ }+ H9 c9 B
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.- j+ f7 a9 k, u6 y
V1 b* g' S0 R. L- O' o2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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, L, Q L2 e% G d! Z; c3 oJoe 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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- T7 M; c9 V/ S4 c& @; w- ZRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.7 o4 B* q; M7 H" p6 X+ v6 R
% X, a) ?% H* E' o* [# A3 tThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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