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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., x# K' d/ i7 r1 {! o# H' P
: b2 [% k X1 ^1 L. u% H5 W) ^' AI'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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. ^+ P( E! K+ x% II'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./ y, a% G& t% {) G% f: @+ 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:2 y* F7 @2 e; j
/ C# X6 D3 E1 K' B4 O( N"Who's Benjamin Franklin?", L: ?; ]) [8 [
$ a3 D o' U0 a4 Y, g6 N* E; AI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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, Y3 F1 \0 F; H# cAnd the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"! R% W( J+ t# \. R( \$ s/ l
( ]$ P, r; I; [/ ?" dI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?& p# V! o) o4 S8 }9 W" j6 G% k6 E5 n7 [
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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; Y% A; [4 F& PI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?$ E u3 K( D3 A' w1 r: U- S. x
' f: H* j1 F! Q8 s4 D, II 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!# A( F1 ?+ m9 R) T7 K+ i8 I
1 T( x2 B. J6 L! y7 \/ WI 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."* Y- j( D& }+ i4 C2 }
- @ B' ]) F0 ?6 X; ASo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”# L# l: E) V; |* z! W
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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. C9 l4 A* u! n6 O1 z
' [0 P& d- [* kThank you very much!
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8 a/ u% q% C' N2 D4 c7 KImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:# @1 I. m0 ~2 R1 t; }. Y4 q" v
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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4 }: j8 z: ]/ `8 o, |"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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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".% P! [% u7 v0 ]) S
0 M3 C' O" C# a3 T9 s& {1 d7 ?4 hRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US., ^0 x8 X& t6 Z/ {: |
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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