Aling Gloria jokingly floated the possiblity of running for Congress in 2010. Her joke was promptly followed by a string of staccato-fashioned laughter reminiscent of the laughter one hears towards the end of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
I am relieved that I am not alone in qualifying what was floated with the adverb “jokingly”. Ms. Tordesillas used a verb. But just the same, I think, Aling Gloria’s words were meant to be a joke (now, that’s a noun).
It is very rare for a “president” to joke around in public. In Aling Gloria’s case, I can only remember two other jokes she made- one during the Rizal Day ceremonies of 2002, and the other sometime in July of 2005. (Okay, there were more, but enumerating them all here may take up more time than I had alloted for typing).
Jokes won’t be jokes without their usual punchlines.
The Rizal Day joke had its punchline revealed sometime in October of 2003. We all thought that we were in for a single-punchline joke. The grand punchline for the same joke, as we all know by now, was delivered one early June morning in 2004, when most of us were too sleepy to laugh. Well, up to now, that joke’s still on us.
The July 2005 joke, now more commonly known as the I-am-sorry-for-my-lapse-in-judgement joke had a punchline right before the twentieth EDSA I Anniversary. It became known as “Presidential” Proclamation 1017. I remember some personalities like Prof. Randy David and Congressman Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran, who failed to “dig” the joke. They waited for the punchline, only to hear it while being dragged into police vans. Now, the atmosphere is abuzz again. Apparently, PP1017 was not the first and only punchline to that joke. Are we ready for the Human Security Quack of 2007 (that Orwellian newspeak again) yet ?
There was a joke delivered this morning, 19 July 2007. When are we going to figure the punchline/s out? What is/are the punchline/s?
Abangan ang susunod na kabanata…
