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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.. H$ Y: x" ^$ d
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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.+ M- @4 a8 F1 u8 b
5 A1 @0 _5 Y: SI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:; l5 J& q. y% W, ~
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& \7 F; {/ ^1 n7 j4 P9 A2 WI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?4 k) W; e* @- ~
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And the second one was:! I: l. n0 @$ q d1 ^% B
' c% C% o/ n5 p$ o" ]& p"What's the 2nd Amendment?"0 W% W$ {5 t- D9 A$ m
) E0 K1 o# N. O6 n* mI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?, e; w# t3 i* C3 ?! L- J. ?
) P& E& b4 E% a3 ]) B2 p6 T"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?4 k! _7 ~- w$ }4 ? r
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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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& `5 t9 r) z5 II 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."/ Q* M) ?4 G& e
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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"! y) a3 q3 Y: x. K) h$ B: g
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”7 X; M0 V# N: r* o& j
0 ?' p% ?- b7 a2 _* r: h1 _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.: S4 y( N$ t" ?& Y
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Thank you very much!& Z& \! U1 j; |9 F# k) h
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.* u% V* h+ o7 {7 o7 i
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.: V V$ a4 x; b1 l
' R4 ?- c/ I% b! w1 i1 c"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.6 M8 O% d0 `% w; I# x
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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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7 \0 ]2 X( u) ]% o! j+ [Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.* y8 G, [( q; ~2 u
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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