A birthday party I attended happened to have a funny guest who started delivering jokes such as these:
Question (Q): Unsay tawag sa gamay nga tuko?
Answer (A): Tiki.
Q: Kung gamay nga kuko?
A: Kk.
Make a wild guess on what letters those asterisks are censoring.
Q: Asa ka moadto kung gutomon?
A: Sa bulan (go to moon).
Q: Pila kabuok ang anak sa iro?
A: Eight-toy (itoy).
Q: Pila kabuok ang anak sa baboy?
Q: Ten (bak-ten).
Q: How to tell someone he has dark armpits without hurting him?
A: Kiwi imo deodorant?
Q: Unsay tawag sa pinakadako nga balud sa Japan?
A: Tsunami.
Q: Pinakagamay nga balud?
A: Tsunano.
I guess some of these jokes won’t be funny anymore if translated to Tagalog.
Stephen King once said, “You can’t deny laughter, when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” And that’s from the guy who wrote “Misery.”
I don’t know if Reader’s Digest still has its “Laughter the Best Medicine” section. Mama always had her subscription renewed yearly, and the first parts that I’d search for were the funny ones—Reader’s Digest also had “All in a Day’s Work” and “Humor in Uniform.” I’d even copy the jokes which I’d include in the newsletters that I edited then.
A sense of humor is an essential. And since I’m in love with Jollibee—the mascot—I’ll always have his pa-cute ways to make me laugh. Even Facebook has somehow noticed: the reels that are on my News Feed usually feature him. So cute.
And, yes, I love Jollibee’s menu although I now remove the buns from burgers and hotdogs, and have not ordered their spaghetti and palabok anymore.
The low-carb diet makes the food I order look boring. For example: baby back ribs sans rice, corn, and veggies. Ho-hum.
The request to exclude carbs and veggies always surprises the wait staff. They would then tell me that the price remains the same without the extras. When I immediately agree to that, the more they’re, hmmm, pleasantly surprised I guess.
Learning to relax is the best antidote to stress. But how to relax? That’s when good food and a good sense of humor—not rumor—come in. Food and laughter as medicines. Don’t laugh at other people’s weirdness and mistakes, though—that’s rumor already, not humor.
A public speaker who inserts jokes in his speech can awaken a sleepy audience that just had lunch. That’s when the one and only goal in life is to not get caught sleeping while pretending to listen. It’s a speaker’s most dreaded hour since he himself wants to have his siesta, too.
No, I don’t take siestas—they give me headaches. But when I’m sleepy while columnizing, I wonder if the column’s future reader will feel the same, too.
Since I tend to do OMAD—one meal a day—which requires 24 hours of fasting, the more I’m awake during the day. With only a maximum of one hour spent with food, I now have more time for finding humor in everything and anything.
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