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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.. G/ Z. \! K1 k' k
" {+ w" a* j* l+ P6 J4 VI'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.4 z% S9 _( I$ l) G! q
' r3 O6 q8 |5 P0 FI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like: N3 i4 q' v! g. @
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?. _0 |( Z; s/ u* {
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"' ~; H+ b, D: `, m" E3 @8 U
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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! y6 u' q7 [4 p% [3 jI 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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, W( |3 X% D6 s* e8 j7 K+ aI 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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( Q' |+ }; D* D3 h! WSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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0 P# @- o" U1 z/ y, v m4 ]: YNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”: P0 j8 a2 q ^% s3 c5 `% y* u9 l
4 W, l1 q% f/ hThis 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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( e: ^4 g# Q! S @8 ~Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:- g; ]# ]- b8 T: }
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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5 r& O$ \. M, G: P! y7 k/ |# D2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.+ B5 a M9 b1 w& ]3 I! r
! o# [0 ~7 _6 q: K) `0 l0 `"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.9 `0 J9 ?6 a1 w, C3 w8 u; y
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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".3 `0 G2 G5 f. S
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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.$ F: C' R8 ~- P' P
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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