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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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' V* Y% Z. a% T7 uI'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.. Z3 c' w2 B- z6 \# b9 T/ s
" z8 n' b5 D4 G# z0 J2 [; o0 ]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:$ F8 p% G8 L# K/ a
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"& A u% X& W9 Q8 f' Q( K5 J$ L
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?4 E q a& V X8 X2 U+ G
' o$ r ]2 k; O" rAnd the second one was:4 K+ G, T: d: Y$ Z7 _8 a3 }
( u( B( Z% L1 j! [- h* T"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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& T! D* ^# w7 p. u: a# o"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?- d, i0 t) s2 Y- C) I
' }6 Q. m6 X. A' lI 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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I 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?"6 U5 L$ P, T+ i- a/ F
' z* H9 S1 U- n" S3 d' vNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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' @: ^: T$ S2 m) tThis 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.1 `3 ]- w) E* K' a6 p7 i
. [& I+ \3 Y0 F8 ?Thank you very much!
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" ]- N3 ? B9 ]8 ]: zImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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0 t$ ?( W, f6 i' h5 s2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms./ f: }' K. M2 ?6 J2 y$ ^% u- q
, U% Q- n9 W# N$ j* A" R"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".
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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.% N, R/ q5 \8 [
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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