Today, I want to first note this continued fascination with the idea of the political underdog by political commentators. In The Sunday Times' front page (27 May), NUS academic Reuben Wong was quoted thus:
"Mr Desmond Choo started out as [the] underdog but interventions by PAP leaders led to the [Workers' Party] taking back the underdog mantle."
Hmm, so that's how to play the political game... every underdog has his day?
------------------------------------------
Next, Singapore has land sharks -- seriously, they do not need water to survive, just your money. They are known as loan sharks.
And their catchphrase -- to the people who have taken out illegal loans from them but now find they can't pay up -- is "O$P$" ie Owe Money, Pay Money. Or these loan sharks will splash your front door with paint, or lock up your front grille gate while you are asleep at home and throw away the key.
Should these pesky denizens be thrown to the real sharks out at sea? Which brings me to...
Why Sharks Circle You Before Attacking...
A papa great white shark, and his sonny great white shark still wet behind the gills, were swimming in the great big ocean when they spied survivors of a ship which had sank.
A papa great white shark, and his sonny great white shark still wet behind the gills, were swimming in the great big ocean when they spied survivors of a ship which had sank.
"Follow me, son!" the father shark said to his offspring shark and they swam towards the mass of people struggling or clinging onto debris in the cold water.
"First, we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing." And they did.
"First, we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing." And they did.
"Well done, son! Now we swim around them a few times with our fins fully above the water." And they did.
"Now we eat everybody." And they did.
When they were both satiated, the son asked, "Dad, why didn't we just eat them all from the start? Why did we swim around and around them first?"
His wise father replied, "Because they taste far better without the shit inside!"
I hope this joke does not make anyone take revenge on sharks by eating more shark's fin soup. Don't. I do not want to have to put a video here of the cruelty of shark finning.
Meanwhile, crocodiles have been spotted in the Sungei Buloh wetland area and near the Causeway, says a New Paper report (26 May, "Watch out, crocs are still about," page 10). There's even a helpful, snappy, sign:
On second thoughts, I am not sure if this sign above IS helpful? Watch it until it comes up real close and bites you, or worse?
At least these tips here below (from the same story) are more helpful...
On a final note, just as there are loan sharks, in our local lingo, there are buayas (crocodiles in Malay) in our patois too.
If you do not know what a buaya is, here's the ever-helpful Coxford Singlish Dictionary to the rescue:
http://www.talkingcock.com/html/lexec.php?op=LexLink&lexicon=lexicon&keyword=BUAYA
No comments:
Post a Comment