No alley apple for me please

I missed two very important Freeman/Banat News events this month and I’m sorry. God knows the reason why. And I hope those I have “disappointed” will simply say: “It’s okay. We managed.” And to which I can only say: “Thank you.”

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The so-called “Morong 43” are now free. The cases against them have been ordered dropped by the President. But they still want the government to apologize. Oh, boy!

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I remember a saying that goes something like this: “Man cannot easily be satisfied. You give him an inch, he’d ask for a foot.”

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Pinoy marathoners want the visiting Kenyan runners barred from Philippine running events. Why? Because they dominate the field. I can easily understand the clamor for the ban. If we can’t beat ‘em, ban ‘em.

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I discovered from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader that if we have slang and euphemism in the English language today, people in other parts of the globe have theirs too. And they used them not years but centuries ago.

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Their slang for whiskey was as strange as the slang used by our beer garden guys which is “water sarasay.”

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Years or even centuries ago, when someone in some countries says he’s going to “prep chapel” he’s not going there to pray but to poo-poo. From then the toilet was called that — chapel.

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In those days, when you give someone in a certain country an “alley apple” chances are he’d smash the apple on your face because back then an “alley apple” was horse manure. Apparently, not the apple Eve wanted Adam to eat.

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Back then, too, when a husband told another husband he had just had a “rib roast,” the other husband would pity him. Because a “rib-roast” was not something to eat. It referred to a drastic scolding from one’s wife.

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Manny Pacquiao is not yet retiring even when he’s already ahead with eight world boxing titles to his name. For him, there are still more glories to reap, not to mention the millions of dollars to be cornered. That’s his decision. Let him be.

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You remember Jim Brown? (Or do you know him at all?) Jim Brown was the toast of America in sports that included baseball, basketball, lacrosse, football, and track. He broke many records in sports, especially football. He retired at the age of only 29. He later tried his hand in the entertainment world and made dozens of movies, the most popular of which was “The Dirty Dozen.”

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A doctor friend of mine told students in a symposium: “Take care of your heart this Christmas season ... and her heart too!” So, Tita Salie, take care.