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                    [ArticleID] => 767993
                    [Title] => Truly a fun place!
                    [Summary] => Good publicity, bad publicity, is still publicity.
                    [DatePublished] => 2012-01-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135937
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1444024
                    [AuthorName] => Korina Sanchez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
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                    [ArticleID] => 359810
                    [Title] => ‘Don’t judge me, I’m not a book’
                    [Summary] => Joseph Estrada’s numerous "Eraptions" endeared him to the masses and helped propel him to the presidency.


Now model and beauty queen Melanie Marquez plans to go public with her inimitable, ungrammatical "Melanisms."

Marquez, the 1979 Miss International, will soon publish a book of her English faux pas over the years, titled "Don’t Judge Me, I’m Not A Book."
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283330 [Title] => The textbook cop [Summary] => When it rains, it’s wet.

An apple a day makes seven apples a week.


The laughter has not yet gone stale on those lines, circa Erap presidency. I’m not sure if they are "Eraptions" — jokes churned out by Joseph Estrada and his handlers to endear him to the masses. But these jokes became popular among people who were frustrated that an actor perceived to be a hard-drinking, womanizing buffoon with bad English had won the presidency by a landslide (or a landscape).
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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