"2 Special Cops in Jail" - Headline. Special cops? The crime of the crop?
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A mortuary attendant in Metro Manila was nabbed and detained for selling a cadaver to a medical school. For this attendant, the die is cashed!
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It says here that the more your belly sticks out the more chances you have to have a heart disease. That's belly bad news.
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A judge-friend of mine has retired from being a member of the bench and is now free from court duties. Now he's often seen spending his leisure time on a bench in a food court.
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A taxi driver told me an interesting story as we traveled from Punta Princesa to the Star Group building on D. Jakosalem-V. Gullas Sts. last All Souls Day. The story goes ...
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This taxi driver picked up a Caucasian passenger near a posh hotel in Mactan. The passenger wanted to spend an evening with a woman but he told the driver he wasn't paying any woman for the pleasure she would give him.
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"But it's SOP anywhere in the world for any man who takes out a woman for pleasure to pay her," the cabbie said.
"Not me," the white passenger said. "With my handsome face, I don't have to pay any woman who sleeps with me."
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Somewhere in uptown Cebu, the self-proclaimed handsome foreigner was able to pick up a beautiful woman standing outside of a hotel. He boarded the taxi with the woman, announcing to the cabbie that he had just found the most beautiful woman in town. He was a picture of a man possessed.
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As the taxi was about to move on, a dispatcher approached the driver and whispered to him: "Di na babaye ang napik-ap sa imong pasahero. Bayot kana." - The end.
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A text message from Jesse Bacon, formerly of The Freeman and now of the Philippine Tribune: "Doña Mary berates her son Erap on her l02nd birthday. Joseph, anak, hindi mo natapos ang pag-aaral mo, pati ang pagka-presidente mo hindi mo natapos! Ngayon pati jail term mo hindi mo pa rin natapos. Mamatay na ko wala ka man lang natapos."
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