Religious image

QUARREL. After Tirso (not his real name) became a born-again Christian he got rid of all the religious images in the house including the image of the Virgin Mary. Helen (not her real name), the wife, got mad. They quarreled all night.

BUDDHA. There was nothing Helen could get rid of in retaliation until she remembered the statue of the squatting Buddha in her husband's computer room. She grabbed it and smashed it on the floor. It got broken to pieces and yielded coins and stiff peso bills. "Gihimo diay sa bana nga alkansiya si Buddha," said our Ear informer. "Naglumba ang magtiayon hakup sa tinaguang kuwarta."