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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. M: B' U. @7 b6 N
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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.
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4 N+ }' |+ q1 E. q1 W% NI'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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5 F: u! V; P) u$ ? T+ Z3 C, k( y; {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 ?% v( l2 u) ~& z7 p
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) [3 {- Q6 v5 j9 r- ZI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?# u4 i: i9 T( M
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?1 X' w. L# C: B+ K9 \
8 r2 Z0 R( k9 e/ I"What is Roe vs. Wade?"' {. a/ N7 w: [" \# |6 [! h
a7 C5 g: ?' e/ x% C8 x0 J- M2 LI 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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6 h7 I7 }1 T1 f& [$ qI 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.". M4 M7 H$ g) _" O4 L& N; R
V4 H3 ^4 r3 {. v0 j; R, QSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?", \- A4 M$ V4 U1 m+ j- g+ q* c
6 V! E: W3 b- `6 ^: F% ]Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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, W1 e1 J! K: E5 Q0 Q+ {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.
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* B/ H9 y4 {: p) S* i, O+ e3 bThank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:* P t Y$ T+ M( ^8 w
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.6 B$ l" j1 H, j1 z+ R
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.4 e; }0 P. |4 w# c5 W
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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." A' }3 P) y2 F
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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