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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.
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1 }: f" N9 p; |( E0 RI'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.* D3 g& Y' r! Y4 ]$ j1 D
1 J! y; M5 K5 ^9 ?4 jI'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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1 p' v% E0 T& @* lI 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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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"! _ P {( e1 b6 l
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:- h9 q( }1 {5 d+ U/ u, M' X
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"1 P) J7 v7 f: q# z3 ]/ Q3 B
1 c- F2 h. v% t( T4 {/ C" |$ `8 ZI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?8 f1 J) \" O4 ^- Z9 c
2 f& V+ O2 L' H; a4 I% rI 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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2 ]) ~ f% u" L( {! Q$ J& e! {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."5 y& s* |/ e. e( R1 S5 `; o
2 S4 C( G/ `! j( c3 ^% ~2 ~, v2 YSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"; \6 o( O* o5 \( J/ y
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”) }' i$ T4 j& n
$ i( ]1 i; _0 C0 l9 ~8 o6 [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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# R* v( S$ K ?8 _Thank you very much!1 V( c0 k/ r) S8 w9 g, B
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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( Y) A3 x$ ]) ~* T1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.5 i6 h) E2 z$ x/ l" E2 S
" q( J' y' M. a" `3 a0 ]. o"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.) z* M2 n6 I5 x. L: ~
. n( Z: k! ]$ MJoe 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".* e( v& T( b3 w0 A. ?3 X$ ^
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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., G2 b1 X7 o/ ^' j
0 z: Q, B; @1 |9 [2 v/ jThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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