Awful title, I know…I just couldn’t help myself. Har har!

The web is all a-buzz over the Queen having a Flickr account. My favorite photo is this. Why can’t I look like Audrey Hepburn again?

I never understood why women need to wear those feathery hat things. How many birds do you think die every year in the name of fashion?

Sarah Palin compares herself to Shakespeare. Egads! My cousin (Ron on my blogroll) would probably blow an artery over this blasphemy. Don’t you need to master the English language first before you start making up your own words?

To set the record straight, it’s not so much that Shakespeare coined new words (although he did in some cases). He used a technique called functional shift which is basically word syntax conversion. For example:

Loved me above the measure of a father;
Nay, godded me, indeed. — Coriolanus

‘God’ in this case is used as a verb. Some studies have shown that reading Shakespeare actually helps exercise the brain. I’m pretty sure you don’t get the same effect from reading Palin.

From shakespalin:

“To be though, really,
in this great country of ours,
is though, not to be.
That is the question here,
today in America. Also.”

From Wikipedia.

The saying goes like this: Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

8 million Filipino voters should be feeling ashamed of themselves right about now. Did we not learn our lesson 9 years ago?

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Were we not taught in school that ‘presidentiable’ is not a word? How about vice presidentiable and senatoriable? What’s up GMANews.tv?

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Bong Revilla is at #1 while Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Drilon, and Enrile are 3,4,5. SERIOUSLY?!

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Pac-man wins again. Great.

Read this article by Conrado de Quiros. I laughed my @ss off over his advice for Gilbert Remulla. Classic! I’m very happy he’s losing (or maybe he has already lost at this point).

Ooooh! Voting machines fail test a week before national elections and no parallel manual count?

The shit is about to hit the fan. Literally.