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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.* P% Q. \1 K: p+ v. E0 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.2 C, `) E% p) d3 f3 U5 R2 @: U7 ?
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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.
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0 X' T/ J& F. Y' b. n# gI 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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- {; l% J& h, \5 |/ m: r"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"- A3 ?$ j7 @- K* Y
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?( y3 `% d+ i( n
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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, Y" F" F( s- N1 S- S" sI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"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!
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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."* L! J$ |6 z- K
0 `) x/ P# e* WSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"8 a0 G) o2 U+ B3 b( U$ v2 ~
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”3 S4 R6 R7 B: R
T1 U% m8 S) @- V: XThis 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.
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Thank you very much!& D: G% u) _9 `5 X4 f' 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 $100 bill.6 J; j/ _1 B' Q7 U! A% {8 \
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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. F/ _! S1 G; M: y- L1 a' n"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.& S2 b* X8 p" t: ^8 W8 Z2 T2 _) b
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Joe Wong used this case in a form of a question: What is Roe vs. Wade? To which he cleverly delivered the punchline "Two ways of coming to the United States".
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- \4 D; c$ n" z' h5 [- JRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.* S P* K, B! ~1 F! J
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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