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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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8 b) q5 F3 t6 C4 kI'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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3 x' J( Q3 @& Z3 ^: b/ jI'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:( M) |2 _: R. I
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0 | S. T1 L( hI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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& F: `" d9 {9 [2 {4 ?7 j- `0 N"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?% b) ^* K( D! `; o
( C5 R( c9 I7 E. X( M3 s' oI 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! V# ]" N1 i2 q- G
0 K U' i" Z/ l& 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."& j# U% a$ b7 ]
Y7 l% O' w& B1 F: T# z8 k8 VSo 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.”
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# Q4 T$ H# M/ _' YThis 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.) _$ Q2 g, I1 [% E
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Thank you very much!
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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.8 j0 a9 [9 |+ s
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms. B9 \/ V* ~: ]8 e
( G: O4 ~" }, U, z( U"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.* y# \4 s2 E' l6 {' b, o& n
8 _( B: b6 X4 u% B* n0 D8 U& vJoe 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".; ?0 r0 X) v' `5 ~1 \
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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.5 ^& M2 ?- u2 N( O5 M
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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