Religious business
The PNP will soon have a new uniform. So new image for our cops? Never mind that saying..."Same dog with different collar."
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This month being June, former City Councilor Erny Elizondo sent me this pickup line: "Marriage is to find a woman who will annoy you throughout your life."
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The Supreme Court has fined a judge for his delayed decision. Justice delayed is justice delayed.
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Peace in Mindanao? Let's hope and pray it will soon come to pass. Meanwhile, this news: "7 Marines, 9 Abus killed in encounter."
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Shark is in the news. Shark meat, that is. Before the war and even shortly after the war, shark was also in the news. I mean the textile called shark skin.
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Everyone wanted to wear shark skin suit. When I graduated from high school I noticed that everyone, or nearly everyone, who went up the stage to receive his diploma was in shark skin. I mean their suit. The diploma was in pig skin.
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Lawyer Clarence Paul Oaminal's CEBUpedia column in The Freeman is not only well-read but also well-clipped. Readers who want to know more about Cebu, especially the streets, are clipping the column after reading it, then filing it in scrapbooks. This I learned from a UV teacher whose students are clippings the column.
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Did you know that the making of the Rosary ("Rosaryohan" we call it here) is a big industry in Italy? I heard an Italian business entrepreneur say on tv that Rosaries worth millions of dollars are purchased by tourists visiting religious places in his country.
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He said the buyers are not only Roman Catholics but also devotees of other religions. Reminds me of what I learned about the sale of religious articles in Cebu. I recall writing here about a non-Catholic couple whose means of livelihood was, is, the vending of religious images including the "reboltos" of the Sr. Sto. Niño.
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OVERHEARD. There was a transpo strike last Thursday and many commuters were stranded. Said one commuter: "Gisumpong nasad ang mga karaho sa ilang sakit." Said another: "Welga-welga unya kon wa nay bugas adto dagan namo mangutang way bayad-bayad."
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