Damn You, Papa Smarps

This is crazy! You mean as a kid who grew up in the 80’s, like me, and watched those Saturday Morning Cartoons were duped into watching shows that have subliminal messages?

So you think it’s better to be upfront and clear to kids like those in-your-face cartoons of the Simpsons, Boondocks, South Park, and Family Guy?

Damn! It just hit me till now, you know.

Just take a crack at this..

The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of ’80s Cartoons
By Todd Ciolek

The ‘80s were supposed to be a harmless time for toys and the cartoons that sold them. Whether shilling lines of action figures or promoting characters who would eventually be action figures, these shows were designed to eat up kids’ attention in 30-minute blocks while ham-handedly promoting good citizenship and hygiene. In spite of this, cartoons sometimes snuck in certain moments that were clearly designed to break impressionable minds and pervert the youth of America. In the interests of helping a generation get through long-stewing cartoon-related stress disorders, we’re confronting the worst things the ‘80s ever did to us.

[Excerpt from toplessrobot.com]

Romantikong Programmer

[Forwarded email]

“You are a field in my class. You will always be protected.”

“Are you an exception? Let me catch you.”

“You are my increment operator. You make my value increase.”

“I think you’re my compiler. My life wouldn’t start without you.”

“You are my initializer: without you, my life would point to nothing (null).”

“I am a BufferedReader. You input meaning into my life.”

“You are my semicolon; always present in everything I do.”

“You are the JDK (Java Development Kit) in my life. I won’t compile without you.”

“If I were a method, you must be my parameter, because I will always need you.”

“Can you be my private variable? I want to be the only one with access to you.”

“We are an aggregation of classes: one cannot exist without the other.”

“public class YourWorld extends MyWorld”

“My love is a for loop without the increment operator– infinitive, non-terminating, and dificult to stop once it starts running.”

“Let me be the ‘throws Exception’ to your ‘public static void main (String[] args)’. I will accept whatever you give me.”

“[me != me]. [me += you].”

“You are my superclass: you define what I can do.”

“You are the IDE of my life: I find it easier because of you.”

“My main method is ‘public love iLoveYou().’ “

“I am the field attribute in your class: I can’t exist unless you do.”

“My love for you is a constant variable: unupdatable and unchangeable. “

“Are you an applet? You make me feel all GUI (gooey) inside.”

“You are my loop condition. I keep coming back to you.”

“You are my methods. I am nothing without you.”

“Are you my driver? Because you make my life worthwhile.”

“You are my API. I want to know everything about you.”

“Can you be my ActionListener? That way you notice everything that I do.”

“I am a boolean method whose love will always return true.”

“Buti pa ang Strings, nag-mamatch. “

“Buti pa ang data type, may value.”

“Buti pa ang Swing components, may Listeners.”

“String myHeart = “I Love You”;

String[] herWords = myHeart.split( ” “);

return null;”

“My love for you comes with no strings attached.”

“Are you a double? The thought of you always floats inside my head.”

“My love for you cannot be measured with an int, not with a long, and not even with an array. It is out of bounds and infinite…. “

“Di na tayo kailangang i-cast pa; magkatype na tayo, e…”

The Curse of Being Beautiful

They say that empty barrels make the most noise. Probably true. But as long as these barrels are pretty, you might as well make use of them.

In the case of Janina San Miguel winning Bb Pilipinas-World, I’ll blame society on this one. How they get through to the top and still run away with the gold is just beyond me.

She was probably just nervous. You notice how she uses “p” in place of “f” in her sentences? Yeah, that’s just being nervous.

Let me see you try answering the question “What role did your family play to you as candidate to Binibining Pilinas?” in front of thousands of eyes while smiling and half-naked. Let’s see if you don’t rattle your ass to death. It’s damn hard. I know from personal experience (hehehe).

Well, anyhoo, good luck to Janina San Miguel for winning the Bb Pilipinas-World 2008. I don’t know you, but it’ll be fun watching you compete against the rest of the world.

UST alumna wins Bb. Pilipinas crown
By Ed H. Pangilinan, Contributor

As expected, the results of the Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant Saturday night did not please everyone.

The annual pageant continues to draw more rant than raves, especially from pageant fans, because of the controversial and often mediocre winners year after year.

This year was no different. During the announcement of winners, the crowd at the Araneta Coliseum cheered for a minute, then jeered after host Paolo Bediones completed reading the names of the winners.

Jennifer Barrientos, from San Mateo, Rizal, was crowned Bb. Pilipinas-Universe and will represent the country in the next Miss Universe pageant which will be hosted by Vietnam. She is an alumna of University of Santo Tomas, where she earned a degree in tourism.

Patricia Fernandez, 22, was named Bb. Pilipinas-International. When asked who she admires the most, she said “Mother Teresa.” And then she made a gaffe: “I believe all of us should do her.” The audience went wild and booed.

Realizing her mistake, she corrected herself and added, “I mean, all of us should do what she does.” It was unclear whether she knew Mother Teresa died in 1997.

Fernandez will be the country’s representative to the Miss International, which will be held in Japan in November.

Pageant neophyte Janina San Miguel emerged as Bb. Pilipinas-World.

Few probably thought the 17-year-old mestiza from the University of the East would end up wearing the crown after she also embarrassed herself during the question and answer portion. She mumbled a lot and kept apologizing to everyone and reasoning that it was her first time to join a pageant. She finally spoke in Filipino to finish off her tough initiation. Earlier in the proceedings, San Miguel won Best in Swimsuit and Best in Evening Gown.

[News excerpt from manilatimes.net]