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I have seen this print advertisement along NLEX (I’m actually not sure if it’s NLEX or SLEX or Your-ordinary-EX, but this is the highway under Skyway before EDSA-Magallanes).
I have tried my best to imitate the real print ad. Haha. Anyway, this is my point: The advertisement’s goal is to be seen and/or to be read but the reminder below states otherwise. Maybe, the advertisement wanted to direct the driver’s eyes ahead after seeing or reading the print ad. There is an initiative to keep drivers safe (safe from accidents due reading print ads along highways) but it still gives them an unfortunate chance to be unsafe. Irony that is.
Alfred Miguel Aguado’s Matrix of Action :P
So, where do you fall?
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..Another weirdness of mine generated during dormancy. :P ∞
I found a cat nursing her young. And it was my first time to see something like this. :D
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure — right from Day One! — that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me…….
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on ‘THIS’ side of the road before it goes after the problem on the ‘OTHER SIDE’ of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his ‘CURRENT’ problems before adding ‘NEW’ problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
Sing this line from a famous classic song:
Somewhere down the road..
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One more time..
Somewhere down the road..
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Now, sing this another line from a another famous, classic song:
Sometimes when we touch..
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Noticed something? :P
I have read an article in Wikipedia entitled Minced Oath.
A minced oath, also known as a pseudo-profanity, is an expression based on a profanity which has been altered to reduce or remove the disagreeable or objectionable characteristics of the original expression; for example, “gosh” used instead of “God”, “darn” or “dang” instead of “damn”, “heck” instead of “hell”, and “blimey” instead of “May God blind me!” Nearly all profanities have minced variants; the words that are most taboo give rise to the most (Hughes, 1991).
Minced oaths are used so that we may seem less profane is verbalizing profanity. Aside from saying “What the fuck”, we could instead say “What the eff”. But are we really less evil using minced oaths instead of the profane expressions themselves?
During my elementary and high school years, my teachers would ask us this question every after lesson or every after sentence they speak:
Understand?!
Understood?!
And the class says yes even though not all of the pupils really did understand. Haha. Anyway, I am asking myself which expression is really more appropriate to use? I have been inspired by my latest post, Forget and Forgot, to have a similar analysis of which idiom is more proper to use.
Two professors from the Department of Arts and Communication told us that the right expression is
I forget!
instead of
I forgot!
and they had this explanation:
WordPress has this clever mechanism to know what search terms are used by people to find my blog. And I have these some search terms got me laughing or just feeling weird. I believe there would be more outrageous or interesting search terms in the future, for now, enjoy these!
The adjective inferior modifies what? :P
I really love quotations, and I even quote myself after a niiice intellectual conversation. I have been collecting quotations since time immemorial and I just have them on my good old Notepad. Since I write often, I always seek an inspiration (for style, for theme and for writing itself) from the best classical and contemporary quotations. I have been having a hard time searching my database (Let me call it a database so I may seem so well-organized) for appropriate quotations since they are just scattered like everywhere–I even have ones on my mobile phone! In the name of the God of Obsessive Compulsiveness, I opened my own private database of quotations. Using the power of Tags (TAGS!), I can easily find quotations either by theme or by author. Talking about themes, quotations, more often than not, have two or more themes. Unlike some book-compilations of quotations, a blog-database could assign a specific quotation under two themes or more (e.g. Sex and Cooking [Now guess or even make a quotation about these two themes]). Actually, the database-blog was originally intended for my private use since I don’t expect much traffic anyway. But why the hell not should I publicly open it huh? Anyway, I named the blog The Podium. Quotations, especially during the days-I-am-not-born-yet, are quoted from famous orators like Martin Luther King. The Podium has just opened and contains FEW (When I say few, it’s FEW) quotations. But I would be adding at least one per day. Here it is!: And oh, I (will) also quote my friends :)
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