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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' T2 S7 \+ x# }
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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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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.3 W7 Z, X, T! h* g$ D8 ~
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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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- K/ y0 U8 I- A8 b; Q4 l4 T9 _& n"Who's Benjamin Franklin?", U; x u+ Z9 C) j* M
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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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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$ M( p! k$ j) F* O/ @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!. [4 n# ^7 K6 B: h5 W
/ w6 I2 f9 q" v1 N; CI 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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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"# H3 B: a: i3 G" M# L1 \6 V
' L2 G9 [9 R; ], ?Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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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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2 H' k* e( d8 C7 S, D$ R7 TImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.7 f0 e+ U: n; h8 \# Y
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.0 @+ C* V. q! O* X: J
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.* Q: Y8 f: O3 g8 M+ ^$ B7 A
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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".0 t2 E, S q$ j. }* B( r! b2 d
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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.; E" z$ B6 H3 V4 A2 ` O
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The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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