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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.6 h9 {4 D& q% J' H- T
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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.8 K F8 P; b. O# Z7 y; J
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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.; E L c9 M2 P( Z7 r2 g0 t- P
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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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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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6 [: U+ w+ }* C& U1 R* pI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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5 e+ q% E/ T4 z; ZAnd the second one was:
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* m* `1 M1 N" S/ ]"What's the 2nd Amendment?"7 V: O( [ K* y4 n1 [
4 _! t& `# Y* _) y x% A$ MI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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5 z6 M# o# y5 X, aI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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+ Z/ o4 x3 L' }6 r1 g8 CI 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!( u. c. x5 d* L
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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."$ }& H ^* s% D' x& z
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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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9 q5 T4 h- H$ \; D+ V8 P. n qNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”9 Y2 E* y' I* q. n
. X0 g4 }5 x$ p/ [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.7 r3 A: b) f& w7 K
' r/ |( O- O0 D9 cThank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:7 ^. X/ _) s" C# M3 A+ ?
+ }0 H; u0 m T9 K$ Y2 Y L1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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) B0 f5 N! g/ o) `$ V0 S! I2. 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.
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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".5 Q8 h+ i- l8 C9 L9 k
' j: O* ]: K: O0 kRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.( P+ L- d( A2 F. Y L
5 j0 V6 Q" L% x* X! `/ Z6 nThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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