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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.* ~; n7 Z, L/ v, n8 c
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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.6 r. j# i3 R2 d/ ` Y- ]
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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:7 o* G% [0 i) {) x
- I* k" `9 L: S"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"1 A. R" {0 ]; W* i% V$ _& `
. n' |% L- K, Y$ B& V5 K: s8 WI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:3 Z! C1 _" [; K% B6 U4 Y3 L, L
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?) u8 n6 E" f8 t6 T" d# T
" y# y2 @2 R1 l) ~' d"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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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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: n- o4 I; ~. d7 ^+ YI 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."5 S, z/ J& _; @1 c( t7 i5 N
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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"* @, y2 U2 O/ Q8 C* T* e: T
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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8 b! U1 t: ]5 h; lThis 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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4 t8 |( ~8 u2 E( A1 HThank you very much!+ z9 ^( o6 j q6 {
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) ^7 [0 z+ u/ b; E' bImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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! t- y+ k7 s4 x" r0 Y( T9 h* o* T1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.+ z4 M# j( Z, E* ?+ @$ Y; j
3 L; I8 _' a% s' l3 n% ^; K2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.+ Z. M! @0 @$ ~# |( p0 b& k
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion." Z0 V( C4 ~4 N$ E( p; `7 ]5 m
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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".( C3 u* U; p! e- v! W/ q9 M
3 h/ k; X: M. _Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.6 I+ v8 j' M( W- k3 Y
- K7 x- H: `* zThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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