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In his famous and eloquent dissent, the judge protested that states could not impose criminal penalties on a citizen simply because.

“Order of the court!” the judge demanded.

The prosecutor asked the accused some few questions.

“At the time of the incident what did you did?”

The audience went in raucous laughter.

“Silence please!” the judge’s voice rang out in the court room.

The complainant stood up and said to the prosecutor, “Kindly revise your question, the accused might be confused because you’re using wrong grammar. ”

So he revised the question.

“At the time of the incident,” (long pause thinking what he says was wrong) “what did you does?

The audience broke out into a more raucous laughter while pounding any objects they can grab.

The accused stood up and angrily exclaimed, “I ask the court to cancel this session because the prosecutor’s mind is not in order,” and added, “What kind of English do you has, as if you’re not education.

How to brush your teeth while whistling?

It’s so simple, pull-out your teeth and then whistle while brushing them! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!

Events & More Philippines, in cooperation with Wafer Models and Concept, is on the lookout for fresh new faces and next heartthrobs as it brings to Cebu the first regional search for the next Mr. Campus Face Philippines 2006.

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A girl with a lustrous shiny long hair that really bounces as she moves, sashays down the street .

The bachelor at her back sings, “Dahil sa ‘yo, nais kung mabuhay…”

Flattered, she turns her head, smiling and coyly says, “Thank you!”

Then he scuttles away in sheer terror while yelling, “Ang mamatay ng dahil sayo!

Cebuanos are noted for a native form of martial arts - the art of stick-fighting called olisi or arnis. Olisi was derived from ulisi, a cane or staff, while arnis probably derived from the Spanish arnes, which means armor, hardness, or accessory. Stick-fighting also came to be called eskrima, from the Spanish esgrima or fencing.

Legend has it that Lapulapu, the hero of the battle of Mactan, was a master of the art of fighting with what the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta called a ‘fire-hardened’ stick. Oral tradition tells of how Lapulapu could throw a pestle-sized stick right through a live coconut trunk, and of how he could outmaneuver using any of the ’six variations’ of the slash-and-thrust of the arnis.

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Cebuanos are noted for a native form of martial arts - the art of stick-fighting called olisi or arnis. Olisi was derived from ulisi, a cane or staff, while arnis probably derived from the Spanish arnes, which means armor, hardness, or accessory. Stick-fighting also came to be called eskrima, from the Spanish esgrima or fencing.

Legend has it that Lapulapu, the hero of the battle of Mactan, was a master of the art of fighting with what the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta called a ‘fire-hardened’ stick. Oral tradition tells of how Lapulapu could throw a pestle-sized stick right through a live coconut trunk, and of how he could outmaneuver using any of the ’six variations’ of the slash-and-thrust of the arnis.

Local history says that the Spaniards found the art of stick-fighting so brutal that they banned it. Perhaps the reason for this was more a matter of security than reasons purely ethical. The art, however, survived in theater where it found a place in the fencing sequences of the play called linambay (or komedya, an elaborate spectacle based on European medieval romances) and moro-moro and in the ritual battle scenes of the drama-performance of the Sinulog, the Cebuano dance of worship.

The word “eskrima” became popular in the early years of the American regime, when the first Arnis club organized in Cebu City, in 1920, the Labangon Fencing Club used the term in their practice of the art.

In 1932, another group of Cebuano eskrimadores (stick-fighters) organized themselves into a group called Doce Pares, an evocation of the Twelve Peers of France. Founded by Lorenzo Saavedra and Filemon Cañete, the organization has continued to this day. It has promoted this old form of martial arts which has through the efforts of masters like Ciriaco Canete, gained devoted adherents not only in the Philippines but also abroad.

Today, the popularity of the martial art has spread around the world. Eskrima practioners or eskrimadores and Eskrima clubs can be found in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, China, and in Europe most notably in Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, and Switzerland.

If you have a back scratcher and use it, you will realize that there are parts of your body that need to be scratched but cannot be reached by your arms. Thus you use a back scratcher. It will give you comfort then ;).

Like yourself. If you explore inside yourself, you would know that you have more hidden talents than you could ever imagine. You would also know that you have skills that you never tapped into use. You would realize further that those skills can be mastered thru constant use.

The best saying I’ve read is, ‘Good things are yet to come’. I’ve been following that adage, for I know there are a lot of good things that God has planned for me.

But sometimes we have to be glad and contented for what we are and for what we have. But who will make your life better if you will just sit right there and daydreaming of things you would like yourself to be? If you will just stay idle and procrastinate, waiting for tomorrow to come, you’re only compounding the problems of your family and country in general.

Well, we have to know and identify our innate talents so that we could tap them whenever we need them. If you only pull a muscle and not just wait there for luck to come, you will be amazed to find the wonderful YOU.