Dilly-dallying is no-no to PNoy

Heard of a middle-aged socialite who thought the stem cell is a cellular phone? I have not until I heard some guys talk about it in a TV joke show.

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It says here that eating too much is bad for the health. A slum dweller's comment: "It's 'badder' if there's not much to eat."

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I told a friend that the brand new elected officials have started working. "Wrong," said someone who's been elected councilor. "Serving is the right word," he said.

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PNoy said in his speech where he gave NIA officials some dressing down that he doesn't engage in dilly-dallying. So let there be no dilly-dallying in the investigation of the culprits involved in the sexual harassment of some women OFWs.

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Yes, let there be no dilly-dallying. Look what happened to the Maguindanao massacre case. Because there was dilly-dallying in the solution of the case, the heirs of the victims got tired waiting and decided to settle the case out of court for money.

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The Coast Guard (Navy?) personnel involved in the shooting and killing of a Taiwanese fisherman caught poaching in Phl waters have been charged for a crime in court. "Is that fair?" the father of a PMA graduate asked me. Before I could answer, he answered his own question: "It's unfair," he said, "Because those Coast Guard personnel were only doing their duty as protectors of our sovereignty."

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Diving for and gathering starfish is a source of livelihood for some marginal families in Olango Island. Fathers and children as young as seven years old are engaged in this means of earning a living.

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It's a from-hand-to-mouth kind of earning a living. But the poor islanders do not seem to mind as long as the Olango waters continue to breed starfish and there are people buying this rare fish.

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OVERHEARD. The father of a college coed has observed that two young men courting his daughter have long uncombed hair. Papa to daughter: "Unsa man nang namisita nimo, wa'y sudlay sa ila o wa bay ikabayad og barbero?" The daughter said: "Si Papa baya. Mao man nay uso ron, uncombed hairstyle." Papa: "Ah, wa ko ganahi. Patupihi na sila ha."