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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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5 ~7 F9 v( g" ^' K$ L1 pI'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./ C/ v; ]- F h' _* E
( p( W7 B2 c$ f) a7 D# UI'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 q! K1 n0 g7 j L# M
- m$ ^4 \1 g5 K4 H8 W/ UI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:5 U" e5 E3 ^. @: v- }# |; k! i1 _
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"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"( H5 s7 p7 h* N+ B6 b) q
: J; f; o6 k# X6 q; QI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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And the second one was:
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9 m% d4 c$ r* {" p"What's the 2nd Amendment?") g! b% ?3 o3 H' ^" W# P) O
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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( X! A" m; a$ @( G& E2 t"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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% y, C. N0 M' d8 O* K2 JI 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!/ w1 o F6 Q0 |& {+ y1 z5 a: Q
0 G! C: V/ G4 P) {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 w* I7 n7 @1 }6 W! [
1 `; Q8 ?& A ^* |) u- s& T& ~So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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" E; f! e' @" p+ T/ J) }' BNow 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." \7 |/ r; I; f3 t
, G- t' C: g: z/ @1 PThank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill., c8 i' s+ c& m2 @3 N1 B w/ N
1 H7 I. v6 v6 V) K; f4 v9 q! a2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.! ~1 u L6 A+ `0 G B8 E' e
! h" @: p4 l( l, ?# B" Q- ]"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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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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Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.
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0 l# c U* ~9 y2 L" Y5 _The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water". |
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