I was gifted with a book of humorous pickup lines for my birthday. Many of the lines I have already read in my column. Thanks anyway to the sender.
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A father in Bohol thought his volleyball-player daughter was working in a Cebu restaurant when he was told the girl had won the best server award.
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It says here that sin tax collection in the first half of the year went up 30%. Doesn't this show that the "sinning" continues despite the drive discouraging to?
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I watched on tv how Makati Mayor Junjun Binay got grilled in the Senate. He must be saying to himself: "Hindi kami ganyan ka-cruel sa Makati."
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An elderly nun ("madre superiora") asked a mediawoman from Manila if it is SOP or standard operating procedure for members of the Senate to "treat harshly" people they question in the hearings they (senators) conduct.
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The nun asked the mediawoman after watching some Senate hearings, including the one in which Makati Mayor Jun Binay got bullied or in the words of many other observers "ginisa pag-ayo."
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I have been watching on tv the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. Some of the youths at play look like some of the youths in our SK. Some of them have beard.
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Mrs. Margarita Garces of Lahug observes that the girl gymnasts competing in the Nanjing gymnastics are minors, by our standards and reckoning -- 11, 12,13 years old. Some of them are too small you can hardly believe they can do what we see them do on tv. She asked: "Is there a law protecting them from having their young bones crushed?"
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I heard -- could be just rumor--that at least two of those facing plunder charges and are locked up in jail are planning to run in the 2016 election. After all, they say, they've not yet been convicted.
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"That's the beauty of our democracy. Anyone accused and jailed for an unbailable crime can still try to make monkey business with our election laws if still unconvicted." This from someone so disgusted he's thinking of running for Congress in 2016 to be able to do something about our faulty election law.
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OVERHEARD. A newspaper report said thousands of big and old trees along the routes of the forthcoming Bus Rapid Transit would be felled or cut down. Someone in a group of businessmen was heard saying: "Unya na nila na pamutlon kon naa na ang buses." Comment: "Bitaw, Basin estorya ra nang BRT...Tulo na ka tuig ang hisgut-hisgut nga moabot na wa man gihapon."