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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., O$ q5 d* D7 q$ U
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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.1 O5 W9 O8 p; Z2 N
' P9 ~, u! Z+ h& e9 g) V$ 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., }' s6 B) r" [
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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:" Y% R& _( b; L5 B
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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: }% g8 N- r' _1 b$ N. BAnd the second one was:+ g( |* ^2 S W4 ~! X; ~0 N
3 m/ p; \' W) H, A3 g% Y2 s" F"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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" G) x9 s+ l }+ N& Y0 fI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?") w3 i# Y% T6 G1 p0 z
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?1 l* m @ k4 A' W0 t. s( ~! K1 i
8 i2 p- q1 X6 i4 X9 z: G/ @7 s mI 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."
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0 K8 U1 G' j1 j. ?So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"1 @ C- D) y8 h3 A, N' x9 j, h. M
- Y# t% i5 B: XNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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% w7 K8 f7 z, z+ o2 n4 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.$ w4 r8 S/ k: \, m
" a* i4 d: e+ t/ {1 M# UThank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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0 \* a }+ e* m3 R, |1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.% Y. B o& f& r6 {
& J7 Y( D# N9 `, c* Q2 P. q: w2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.! ]8 [- H" s; V: x" e" F" V
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.$ b6 g; F5 v o, C9 M# r& y3 g
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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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' W6 B- V$ h+ m3 }4 t+ Q0 S% l1 vRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US./ Q, O8 f1 M0 k% J% H$ e/ S5 G8 s
8 R I9 o8 `' Q1 }) X7 E) l$ OThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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