Apology

"PNoy to explain DAP in forthcoming SONA" -- Headline. DAPAT lang!

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Seen on tv sacks and sacks of rice mixed with dead cockroaches and rat droppings. Some guys should be sacked!

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Someone asked: "Aren't the so-called pork senators qualified to wear the standard orange prisoner's t-shirt? You know like what detainees wear when they're introduced to the press?

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"Wife's constant nagging led to husband's suicide?" Asked our paper's headline, July 7. Reminds me of the pickup line former City Councilor Erny Elizondo sent me one day. It said: "Marriage is to find a woman who will annoy (nag) you throughout your life."

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We're now having rain from time to time. Rain is OK. It makes farmers happy. It makes the flowers grow. But let me ask what someone else also asked before: "Why do taxicabs disappear during heavy rain?"

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Editor Al G. Pedroche of Pilipino Star NGAYON has asked an almost the same question: "Nasaan ang MMDA traffic enforcers pag umuulan?"

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The priest who tongue-lashed a 17-year-old unwed mother during the baptismal rite of her baby has apologized. Ok, no problem. But there's a problem, correction. What's done can't be undone.

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It says here that 60 percent of people who commit suicide hang themselves with a rope. Maybe it's cheaper and less painful than wire.

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Reports say Davao will soon have P3 billion 50,000-seat sports dome. Target date for its completion is 2015. I told a fellow sports fan about this and his reply was: "We can still make do with the Cebu Coliseum. Mapuno ra man gani na kun graduation sa UC."

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OVERHEARD. Gigi Reyes, facing plunder charge, cried upon being told she would be detained in a crowded jail where detainees sleep on the floor with folded cartons for bedding. Commented a schoolteacher: "Naanad  man gud sa luxury living gamit atong sapi." Another comment: "Maynalang gani duna pay karton nga bedding. Kita mo anang nangligid sa sidewalk? Way karton-karton ang gikatulgan. May katungod baya na sila unta matug og lantay apan way ikapalit ang gobiyerno kay tua sa mga buaya ang kuwarta."