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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.7 D. J: [" o' r5 y
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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./ D9 F& s" O4 [+ A* O
$ M( ?& Z/ O2 E0 L+ x1 u yI'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:
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?0 b+ Z, b* \# i2 l2 p3 [, @( v
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And the second one was:/ h6 V) e9 s f7 P
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"0 p, G" r8 X; u# q
9 j2 y" u# y% N7 y. s: HI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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" g" ?9 m. a4 i"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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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!) o. \1 X" v4 V% Q" m- `
7 h. Z( Z7 Q. pI 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."# O8 j. d- z# g. A8 K
+ ?: \ K& `3 p( ?- XSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"1 M: d% e) Z3 y+ r/ ~
) w! n0 o. T" g a7 P; CNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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* ]. n$ o2 w1 }1 C2 mThis 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.& G6 v' H' y& F, A; r
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.3 X, S7 g3 F& s# B8 T' U, _' x
+ L+ w9 J$ Q4 B! ]5 UJoe 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.
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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