Author Archives: 5tephen 4eo

When will a fact sound vaguely vulgar?

When it involves the following statements: Oedipus was a motherfucker. A zebra is a hell of a lot bigger than an A bra. Bisexuals masturbate with either hand. Castration takes balls. Even a rat likes to go into a different hole every now and then. Related stuff: One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric

What’s with the discrimination?

Apparently, all animals in cartoons can talk, except the dog. Don’t believe? In “WordWorld”, Dog is the only WordFriend who cannot talk. Everyone else – Sheep, Frog, Pig, Duck, Bear, Shark and even the tiny Ant – can. In “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse”, Pluto may have taken a vow of silence to protest losing its planetary… Read More »

Job ads

What would you think of a job ad that is posted for almost a year? Financial Times Electronic Publishing (Phils.), Inc. has been seeking to hire Senior Web Production Editors for its Philippine office for as long as I can remember (probably since last July when I started to take notice because the ad was… Read More »

Bread talk

There’s no Gardenia bread in Hong Kong and it’s a shame because the most common option here is Garden bread, which looks like the cheap variety in neighbourhood bakery in Singapore and tastes like it has taken three days to reach the supermarket. Related stuff: Know which side your bread is buttered