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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." k' ^6 e. E- [7 s9 ], A
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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.+ E6 r% F& S: ]8 D$ y+ f) r
2 ?3 A9 Y/ t$ K$ v, N! Q8 g, kI'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.7 E7 C' Z" ^) y+ i0 {1 j3 D
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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:) ~+ [5 U d+ p, G$ {
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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H4 @' P# d5 [, Z; rAnd the second one was:9 z9 [* G3 P5 u" O% ?, ^
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3 x: M) A% E5 q5 n$ x) K) f* xI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?7 a) u9 s# E/ }; s b7 M0 _$ \8 {
+ X8 R" k* C( ?5 G0 U- l; W"What is Roe vs. Wade?"5 z$ R; n% H) N& E& e2 O
' N( E* P( T: `& U! a6 V0 g, ~7 oI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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: J8 l" o) Q8 s8 o- b+ ^* fI 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!) c. B: W- @% d& E. k5 F
4 b9 z8 ?$ [2 W q+ K. ]' bI 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."/ E- ~- u* W5 I. W: p; B
4 Y- x. o3 B0 q& ~/ DSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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p; B) A, k9 `Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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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.& i7 y$ \9 G$ Z& b8 O
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:! a3 x/ e( B+ E( C# r X- J
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.! y) _' g, R8 b! [6 K
: ~3 J8 [/ _) U/ h: N3 ]$ t) ~"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.3 ~$ P, V. ^% ?1 x5 V
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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"./ j# u0 ~! |" n
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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.3 K h* _. y0 f: a
: B7 G7 n6 p c' [8 G7 DThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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