Reader Butch Licaros sent me through e-mail the following “humor” in connection with, he said, the move to rename Mt. Manunggal to Mt. Ramon Magsaysay.
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Buth said some names of places in the US are as queer as Manunggal but they’ve been there for generations. No one has dared change them. According to Butch...
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Cut and Shoot is a town in Texas and Last Chance is a place in Colorado, while Jackpot is a town in Nevada.
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In New Mexico, there’s a place called Truth or Consequence and Rough and Ready is a town in California. And in North Carolina there’s a city named Toast.
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Thank you. Sir Butch Licaros for helping me fill up my space today. Do e-mail me again some time.
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It says here that male business execs in Korea are spending some fortune to enhance their facial looks. And the older they are the bigger their expenses. Naturally!
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I’m referring to the South Korean men. Not the North Korean. In the North, you see, the men spend more on gun powder than face powder.
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Last Monday, I had the chance to watch on tv the Senate hearing on the AFP corruption issue. It was an amusing experience. I was amused at the patience of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada and Sen. Frank Drilon who appeared peeved and exasperated but managed to smile everytime a lady on the hot seat answered: “I invoke my right against self-incrimination.” I lost count how many times she said this.
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Trivia: Heard of the Miller’s Law of Insurance? It says: “An insurance policy covers everything except what happens.” — Peter Stone in the Reader’s Digest.
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E-mail from Kevin Ansaldo: “Why wasn’t the Azkals-Myanmar game in Yangon televised?” I asked my grandson Kenneth the same question. He passed on the question to his father Fred. No explanation from both. Then I heard Leo Lastimosa give the explanation, very simply, as he closed his evening’s newscast:”Wa’y demokrasya sa Myanmar.”
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