Thursday, May 13, 2010

A hilarious case of mistaken identity: our neighbor's helper trumpeted like a seasoned tv newscaster that Dolphy died by the seaside. My mom was shocked, so I trawled the net and told her I couldn't find any breaking news on it. After 1 hour, our tv was turned on to the news channel and it obligingly spit out news about how a dolphin was found dead in Lapu-Lapu, Mactan Island *toink*

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19 comments:

  1. jesus lunel z. pascualMay 13, 2010 at 3:30 AM

    HEHEHEHE .... JOKE JOKE JOKE !!

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  2. CatH \(^_^)/May 13, 2010 at 3:32 AM

    am still giggling madly...

    coz the earlier conversation with my mom after hearing that piece of news from the helper went like this -

    Mom: anyway, they said he died by the seaside

    Cat: what, he was just sitting on the beach and he keeled over?

    Mom: maybe he was relaxing...and then he just died..like the way some people die when they are asleep...

    Cat: eeeeh? how come? I didn't hear of him having a sickness or something

    Mom: probably became depressed because Villar paid him oodles of money to endorse him

    Cat: really? how much oodles are you talking about?

    Mom: they said about Php 8M

    Cat: then how come he would die because of sadness... he got paid Php 8M???
    (me thinking: so what if the endorser didn't win..shouldn't the other guy be the depressed one instead of Dolphy?)
    and yes, this was a serious conversation..this wasn't a joke...

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  3. CatH \(^_^)/May 13, 2010 at 3:34 AM

    lesson to learn...to well-meaning helpers, please, don't just eavesdrop on television sets from afar..so you can hear whats being said clearly..otherwise, it just leads to disbelief and scratching of chins...

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  4. jesus lunel z. pascualMay 13, 2010 at 3:54 AM

    another lesson learned ............. CLEAN YOUR EARS !! hehehe

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  5. dr.philip del carmenMay 13, 2010 at 4:11 AM

    hehehe

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  6. CatH \(^_^)/May 13, 2010 at 6:26 AM

    to friends living abroad....Dolphy is a very well-known comedian here in the Philippines..

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  7. Me AnnMay 13, 2010 at 6:58 AM

    i heard from a realiable source that it was P30M...

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  8. CatH \(^_^)/May 13, 2010 at 7:06 AM

    mygulay..ako dapat ang ma-depress....

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  9. julie concepcionMay 13, 2010 at 7:13 AM

    hehehe... classic example of communication breakdown. Yung kwenting nanganganak, naiiba, nadadagdagan, nababawasan
    that in the end, ibang iba na talaga and resulta ng original kwento...LOL

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  10. Eterio HerreraMay 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM

    another publicity stunt, rumour mongering, rumour mongerers...but it sells publicity, imagine 30 million hits...

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  11. CatH \(^_^)/May 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM

    ito naman Jules...e isang letra lang..hahaha...just because the helper didn't really pay attention and catch the complete news, kaya instead of hearing "dolphin" dead..."Dolphy" dead ang nasa brain nya..hehehe...yung lang ha..one letter..na turned over na ang meaning...

    apparently if I also had heard the whole story (dolphin dead in Lapu-lapu city), I'd have asked, why in the first place nandyan si Dolphy sa Lapu-lapu e bihira naman madinig ko na mga stars nandon (unless they are ensconced in Shangrila hotel)..

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  12. CatH \(^_^)/May 15, 2010 at 12:35 AM

    actually Terry, this is not the fault of Dolphy, coz he wasn't there...it was really just an honest mistake of the helper in not listening intently to what was being said and reacting directly without verifying the whole story...:-)

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  13. chelo aMay 15, 2010 at 9:39 AM

    i am really laughing my arse off here...this is just so funny.x

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  14. Patricia Alix VillaMay 17, 2010 at 1:31 AM

    waahahahahahaahhaaha!

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  15. CatH \(^_^)/May 19, 2010 at 6:10 AM

    Chiarz, sometimes masisiraan ako ng bait kapag umuuwi ako sa Cebu...

    but :-)

    its still fun ahaha!

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  16. CatH \(^_^)/May 19, 2010 at 6:11 AM

    I think what makes this funnier is we believed it pa...and had a serious conversation about it...man..I just kept on shaking my head afterwards...

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  17. CatH \(^_^)/May 19, 2010 at 6:11 AM

    haha..at least dyan Pat, di mangyayari to siguro...hehehe...

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  18. che c",)May 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    kulit nitong kwento hahahahah

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  19. CatH \(^_^)/May 23, 2010 at 11:36 PM

    yes, these are the things I encounter when I go home to visit my parents :-)

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