Entries Tagged as 'Odd'

The Internet is for sale

March 25th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Do you have a spare P350,000? The Internet, apparently, is for sale for that amount.
I regularly read the classified ads section of Sun.Star Cebu, the paper I work for. At any given day, you’d have people selling anything from pets, houses, power tools to second-hand vehicles to adult toys (under Various Items, together with [...]

Tags: Odd · cebu news

From Pigeon Rank to GMail Paper, you gotta love Google

April 1st, 2007 · 9 Comments

Open GMail today and you’ll see a different front page. Google regularly posts updates to the GMail service, including the current storage space offered, on the front page. Today, the front page introduces what is purported to be a new product: GMail Paper.
GMail Paper, according to their April Fool’s joke page, is a free service [...]

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Close encounter of a different kind

June 16th, 2006 · 4 Comments

If you looked up the Cebu sky last night, you’d have the crap scared out of you. At least seven balls of light were clearly visible in a linear formation (if you squint hard enough and connect the dots, it could be the Grim Reaper’s scythe.) The lights were stationary and stayed visible for minutes.
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Tags: Odd · Personal · cebu news

Busted: Newspaper photo reveals married man’s affair

February 1st, 2006 · 2 Comments

It was a picture of domestic bliss-a couple taking their child to a picnic in a public park in Cebu. The pair was laughing and appeared to enjoy an afternoon away from the demands of work and pressure of urban life.
The problem was the man wasn’t having a picnic with his legal family, he was [...]

Tags: Odd · Work

Fatal song

January 10th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Supreme Court Associate Justice Renato Corona warned judges over the weekend not to sing Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” in karaoke bars. The song has been blamed for a lot of karaoke-related killings in the Philippines.
Corona made the statement when asked to comment on the suggestion of arming judges after the recent killing of Pasay Judge [...]

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Deferred success my gluteus maximus

November 19th, 2005 · No Comments

An association of teachers had considered a proposal to use “deferred success” as euphemism for “fail.”
According to the Global Language Monitor: “The Professional Association of Teachers in the UK considered a proposal to replace any notion of failure with deferred success in order to bolster students’ self-esteem.”
Among the euphemisms spotted this year are: misguided [...]

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