FUNNY BUSINESS

In this unjust and troublesome world, there is still a piece of laughter in our hearts. Even in times of uncertainties and difficulties, when you feel your heart became heavier than before, you laugh. Laughter matters most. The only answer in this world’s peace crisis is to laugh. According to most of us, ‘Laughter is the best medicine’. Among those funny business to fall victim in to my desk are these three:

Have I Ever Called You Name

There are so many different names of people nowadays because of the increasing population that one is hard put to remember the names of his or her classmates and teachers.

Even the name of this game me and my friend created, we do not know. But anyway, we will just call it a ‘name game’. Do you have an idea of what I’m talking about? No? well then, here’s a sample conversation we had for the past few days:

“Err… Excuse me, Mary Jale. What is ----?”
“Aha! You just called my name a while ago and then now you’re repeating it. You are supposed to call my middle name and its Tuesday! Give me my one peso!”
“Alas! I took no notice of it. I am very busy with something here and then, grr… Here, take this one peso of yours.”

Ring a bell yet? Well, we have a deal that every Tuesday and Thursday in the month of March, we will call each other by our middle names. And if someone says the real name instead of the required twice within those days, she will have to pay one peso. This is somewhat confusing and mind-boggling yet a very funny business.

Nobody knows this game except for the, wait, let me count first…. Ah, yes! Except for the six of us. I don’t think also someone had played this game before us. This is not good for us though because this is gambling, this involves money but this is only a game which we had agreed, no personalizing.
What’s that again?

“A midpoint is a point that divides a segment (sig-ment) into two congruent segments.”
-Grechelle-
“Speaking (spe-king) of the devil, the devil is here.”
-Mary Jale-

“What”s that anime again? Prince of Tennis (ti-nis)?”
-Gilphanie-

“What’s that? Pith? Death (dith)!”
-Brigitte-

“He partitioned Bengal into two provinces to facilitate administration of the region and to weaken (we-ken)….”
-Yours Truly-

Tired of figuring out what are with these double-quoted sentences? Well, the underlined words are words mispronounced by us and the words enclosed in the parentheses are there respective pronunciation based on how they are said.

Every time we recall these words, we laugh and keep on repeating it. But aside from these words there are still many words we mispronounced such as ‘gren’ instead of green and ‘rid’ instead of red, ‘ridy’ instead of ready and ‘mital instead of metal.’

This one’s of another kind. This comes from Reader’s Digest 1975 issue:

Smashed Potatoes:
A kid’s eye view of the kitchen

ICEPOPS FOR SUMMER
1 whole can of any kind of drink except for beer
11 or 9 sticks maybe
Regular frigerator silver things that turns ice into cubes
THAT’S ALL

Shake up the juice for some hours. Be sure to put the sticks in upside down, else you won’t have no handles, and maybe you could never get the ice pops out.

Now it has to freeze good – or – oh boy! – When you open it, it will spill all over and the floor gets all sticky and bad ants.

Usually it takes till lunch time, but not always.