This document provides biographical information on several individuals: - Pol Medina Jr., a Filipino cartoonist best known for creating the comic strip "Pugad Baboy". - Bob Ong, a pseudonymous Filipino author known for humorously depicting life as a Filipino using conversational Filipino. - Cristina S. Canonigo, a Filipino author who has written over 100 books, most notably on teaching Cebuano language. - Gary Lising, a Filipino actor, comedian and writer known for his work with comedian Bob Hope. It also recounts a funny story about the narrator and their siblings getting lost and having car troubles on the way home from the mall.

2. Franz Bibfeldt - is a famous, fictitious theologian
and in-joke among American academic theologians.
Bibfeldt made his first appearance as the author of an invented
footnote in a term paper of a Concordia Seminary student, Robert
Howard Clausen. Clausen's classmate, Martin Marty was struck by
the name and Bibfeldt became a running joke for Martin and his
friends. In 1951, Marty's review of Bibfeldt's The Relieved Paradox
was published in the Concordia Seminarian.
Since then Bibfeldt scholarship has greatly expanded, though the
preponderance of work has come out of the University of Chicago
where Marty was professor and where there is a Donnelley Stool of
Bibfeldt Studies.
Thomas William Jackson (or Thos. W.
Jackson as he styled his name in his publications) (1867-1934)
was the author and publisher of a series of popular joke books
published between, approximately, 1904 and 1955.
The first and most famous was entitled On a Slow Train Through
Arkansaw [sic]. Despite their titles, the books have no narrative

3. thread. Their content consists simply of a stream of jokes,
clustered roughly by similarity of topic. Women, Jews,
Negroes/Colored people/Niggers (all three terms were used),
Irishmen, Chinamen, and Mexicans were the butt of many of the
jokes.
Some samples of their content (all from I'm From Texas; You Can't
Steer Me) give a fair representation of the quality of the humor:
Well, we can't go fishing any more. The Germans have taken
all the Poles.
Women today want their alimony in advance.
We will never have a woman president,—for the candidate
must be over thirty-five years of age.
If we had women firemen the men would run every time the
fire bell rang just to see the women arrange their hose.
Just imagine old maid cops. If they did arrest a man, do you
think they would take him to the police station?
Where was Solomon's temple?
On the side of his head.
There was a Jew on the train. An Irishman grabbed him by
the nose. The Jew said "Let go my nose." The Irishman said, "I
won't until we get around this curve."
Books
List of Thos. W. Jackson's humorous books, in order of publication:
• On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw
• Through Missouri on a Mule
• I'm from Texas; You Can't Steer Me
• Don't Miss It! Thos. W. Jackson Telling All the Late Ones
• Thos. W. Jackson Catches a Fish and Tells the Story

4. • From Rhode Island to Texas
• Oh, You Auto See the United States with Jackson
• You Can't Beat It! Thos. W. Jackson Getting Off the Good Ones
• See America First
• Thos. W. Jackson Coming with Good Stuff
• Thos. W. Jackson with all the 'Funny Ones'
• Take a Joy Ride with Thos. W. Jackson to the Land of Smiles
• On a Fast Streamliner (by Harry W. Jackson)
Milan Kundera (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlan
ˈkundɛra]), born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has
lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a
naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and
Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in both Czech and
French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these
therefore are not considered translations but original works. His
books were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia
until the downfall of the regime in the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Kundera was born in 1929 at Purkyňova ulice, 6 (6 Purkyňova
Street) in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to a middle-class family. His
father, Ludvík Kundera (1891–1971), once a pupil of the composer
Leoš Janáček, was an important Czech musicologist and pianist
who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno
from 1948 to 1961. Milan learned to play the piano from his
father, later going on to study musicology and musical
composition. Musicological influences and references can be
found throughout his work; he has even gone so far as including
notes in the text to make a point. Kundera is a cousin of Czech

5. writer and translator Ludvík Kundera. Milan Kundera belonged
to the generation of young Czechs who had had little or no
experience of the pre-war democratic Czechoslovak Republic.
Their ideology was greatly influenced by the experiences of World
War II and the German occupation. Still in his teens, he joined the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which seized power in 1948.
He completed his secondary school studies in Brno at Gymnázium
třída Kapitána Jaroše in 1948. He studied literature and
aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague.
After two terms, he transferred to the Film Faculty of the Academy
of Performing Arts in Prague, where he first attended lectures in
film direction and script writing. In 1950, his studies were briefly
interrupted by political interference.
In 1950, he and writer, Jan Trefulka, were expelled from the
party for "anti-party activities." Trefulka described the incident in
his novella Pršelo jim štěstí (Happiness Rained On Them, 1962).
Kundera also used the incident as an inspiration for the main
theme of his novel Žert (The Joke, 1967). After graduating in 1952,
the Film Faculty appointed him a lecturer in world literature. In
1956 Milan Kundera was readmitted into the Party. He was
expelled for the second time in 1970. Kundera, along with other
reform communist writers such as Pavel Kohout, were partly
involved in the 1968 Prague Spring. This brief period of reformist
activities was crushed by the SovieT invasion of Czechoslovakia in
August 1968. Kundera remained committed to reforming Czech
communism, and argued vehemently in print with fellow Czech
writer Václav Havel, saying, essentially, that everyone should
remain calm and that "nobody is being locked up for his opinions
yet," and "the significance of the Prague Autumn may ultimately
be greater than that of the Prague Spring." Finally, however,
Kundera relinquished his reformist dreams and moved to France

6. in 1975. He taught for a few years in the University of Rennes. He
was stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979; he has been a
French citizen since 1981.
He maintains contacts with Czech and Slovak friends in his
homeland,
but rarely returns and always does so incognito
Richard Prince (born 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone) is
an American painter and photographer. Prince began creating
appropriation photographs in 1975. His image, Untitled (Cowboy),
a "rephotograph" taken originally by Sam Abell and appropriated
from a cigarette advertisement, was the first "rephotograph" to
raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's
New York in 2005.
Starting in 1977, Prince photographed four photographs which
previously appeared in the New York Times. This process of re-
photographing continued into 1983, when his work Spiritual
America featured Garry Gross's photo of Brooke Shields at the age
of ten, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious
sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the same
name. His Jokes series (beginning 1986) concerns the sexual
fantasies and sexual frustrations of middle-class America, using
stand-up comedy and burlesque humor.
After living in New York City for 25 years, Prince moved to upstate
New York. His mini-museum, Second House, purchased by the
Guggenheim Museum, was struck by lightning and burned down
shortly after the museum purchased the House (which Richard
had created for himself), having only stood for six years, from
2001 to 2007. Prince now lives and works in New York City.

7. Richard Prince was born on August 6, 1949, in the U.S.-controlled
Panama Canal Zone, now part of the Republic of Panama. The
occupation of his parents is unclear. During an interview in 2000
with Julie L. Belcove, he responded to the question of why his
parents were in the Zone, by saying "they worked for the
government." When asked further if his father was involved in the
military, Prince responded, "No, he just worked for the
government." Prince later lived in the New England city of
Braintree, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston
Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria. He
initially studied medicine, but quit university to become a
newspaper reporter and film critic for local press, while beginning
to write texts for cabaret performances and theater plays.
Qualtinger debuted as an actor at a student theater and attended
the Max Reinhardt Seminar as a guest student.
Beginning in 1947, he appeared in cabaret performances. In
1949, Qualtinger's first theatrical play, Jugend vor den
Schranken, was staged in Graz. Up to 1960, Qualtinger
collaborated on various cabaret programmes with the
Namenlosen Ensemble made up of Gerhard Bronner, Carl Merz,
Louise Martini, Peter Wehle, Georg Kreisler, and Michael
Kehlmann.
Just another 'practical joke'.
Qualtinger was famous for his practical jokes. In 1951, he
managed to launch a false report in several newspapers

8. announcing a visit to Vienna of a (fictional) famous Inuit poet
named Kobuk (author of "The Burning Igloo"). The reporters who
assembled at the railway station however were to witness
Qualtinger, in fur coat and cap, stepping from the train. Asked
about his "first impressions of Vienna", the "Inuit poet"
commented in broad Viennese dialect, "It's hot here."
The short one-man play Der Herr Karl written by Qualtinger and
Carl Merz and performed by Qualtinger in 1961, made the author
known across German-speaking countries. "Herr Karl", a grocery
store clerk, tells the story of his life to an imaginary colleague -
from the days of the Habsburg empire, the First Austrian
Republic, the Austrofascist regime leading up to the Anschluss
(annexation) by Nazi Germany, World War II and finally military
occupation by Allied forces in the 1950s, seen from the perspective
of a one who is a prototypical opportunist. Qualtinger's portrayal
of the petit-bourgeois Nazi collaborator came at a time when
"normality" had just been restored and Austrians' involvement in
the Nazi movement was being downplayed and "forgotten",
making many enemies for the author, who even received
anonymous threats of murder.
Beginning in the 1970s, Qualtinger frequently performed recitals
of his own and other texts, including excerpts from Adolf Hitle's
Mein Kampf and Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The
Last Days of Mankind). These recitals were highly popular and
resulted in several records being published.

9. Ap
olonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is a
Filipino cartoonist best known for creating Pugad Baboy, a black-
and-white comic strip first published in the Philippine Daily
Inquirer on May 18, 1988.
Pol Medina graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1983
with a degree in architecture. In 1985, a year after securing his
professional license, he went to Iraq at the height of the Iran–Iraq
War to work for an Italian construction company. It was at this
juncture that he experienced "the most maddening" two years of
his life.
In 1986, he started scripting and drawing characters for a new
cartoon about a community of fatsos and a dog named Polgas. In
1987, he worked as an architect for a firm in San Juan, Metro
Manila.
In September 1992, he co-founded Pugad Baboy, Inc. with seven
other people. The company adopted Ad Astra Per Aspera for its
motto, inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To
Kill a Mockingbird. Three years later, the company folded when
Pol Medina left in order pursue a career in the advertising
industry. Currently he has another company, Pol Medina Jr.

10. Novelties, dedicated to merchandise based on the strip, including
compilations.
To date, Pol Medina has three wives with his child Susan: Maia
Cecilia, Eladio Jose and Pablo Jose.
Bob Ong, or Roberto Ong, is the pseudonym of
a Filipino contemporary author known for using conversational
Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of life as a
Filipino. .
One reviewer notes (translated from the vernacular):
" Filipinos really patronize Bob Ong's works because, while
most of his books may have an element of comedy in them,
this is presented in a manner that replicates Filipino culture
and traditions. This is likely the reason why his first book -
and those that followed it, can be considered true Piny
classics."
The pseudonym Bob Ong came about when the author was
working as a web developer and a teacher, and he put up the
Bobong Pinoy website in his spare time. The name of the site
roughly translates as "Dumb Filipino," used fondly as a diminutive
term.[5]
"Although impressed," Bob Ong notes, "my boss would've
fired me had he known I was the one behind it." When someone
contacted him after mistaking him as an actual person named
Bob Ong, his famous pseudonym was born.[2]
The site received a
People's Choice Philippine Web Award for Weird/Humor in 1998,
but was taken down after former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada
was ousted after the Second People Power Revolution.

11. Cristina S. Canonigo, a wonderful woman and
excellent author. She is a Cebuana by birth, and splits her time
between Cebu and Manila. She has authored more than 100 titles,
currently. In fact, at last count she has written 127 books.
However, the most popular of her titles is the newest version of her
book, "Conversational English-Cebuano Made Easy", This is the
eBook version of her original soft cover copy.
This book is 226 pages, giving you many new words, phrases,
statements, etc. to learn in the language of Cebuano. Additionally,
there is a self test section, a vocabulary section, a question and
answer section, and examples of conversations and translations
Gary Lising is an actor comedian and writer from the
Philippines . Program met the famous Champoy from RPN 9
Network in the early 1980s. He graduated from Ateneo de Manila
University in the course BS Economics . Program became a writer
of a famous U.S. comedian Bob Hope. A store novelty turns Gary
Lising's Joke Box that he owns.
My Funniest moment that I cannot
forget
One day I was hanging out with my sisters and my brother for a get
together since we are busy in our fast days. We decide to go to the
mall which was about an hour away instead of the close by one),
only because this one is bigger and better. The trip there was fun
and we had a great time together, but the trip home would just be

12. disaster, but it seems like we made it that way since we lost our
minds for no great reason at all. We get into the car and my sister
asks for her phone which was in her purse and I say I can't find it,
she looks, but she can't find it either. So we back track every place
we been to from the past an half an hours driving and walking
around and there was no sign of her phone anywhere. So we get
back into the car when her phone appears from under the drivers
seat. We felt like we were dumb but that wouldn't be the last of our
problems since we were driving in the wrong direction. We turn
around and go back the way we came and got lost in the city
where the mall was and somehow randomly where on the road we
were suppose to be on. After a whole hour in being lost we finally
head home when all hect breaks lose. The car does something
weird and something exploded from inside the engine and gets all
over the windshield and it wouldn't come off no matter how many
times we tried. It was blurry but you could still see and then as we
were almost home the car was overheating and it was steaming as
we were driving and a bell was going off letting us know something
was wrong. We made it home, alive, and my dad checked the car
and the coolent thingy broke and the car had to be towed away.
My Confession about Texting
Honestly I cannot leave in our house without bringing my cell
phone. For me cell phone is also my friend because when im bored

13. cell phone is the one I used and then my boredom suddenly will
disappear. Texting my friends keep me in touch with them. Games,
listening music, and taking photos is my favorite activity in my
phone. Listening music in my phone makes my worries and
boredom disappeared. As a cell phone user I can say that im not
addicted to it, because I only used it for a purpose. When im in the
mall, market and everywhere all I can see are those people that I
think addicted to cell phone. Cell phone is like all in one, it can be a
calculator, an alarm clock, an telephone, an internet etc.
Unbelievable Story
Older Woman Younger Man

14. My husband and I have been happily married for 17 years. What
makes our relationship unique is that Bryan was born in 1960 the
year after I graduated high school. He is 19 years my junior; I am
older than his mother. The secret of our success is a deeply
committed love for one another. Ours is a passionate romance.
Each of us is whole, happy and healthy. Bryan and I have a love
that keeps my spirit young. I am sharing our story to give older
women hope that they too can find peace and love with a younger
man.
We met in 1985 during a rainy winter in San Francisco. We were
neighbors on a tiny street near the historic Mission Dolores. The
worst storm of the season was on its way and my roof was leaking
profusely. I was in dire straits financially, having been newly
divorced. I was preparing to fix it myself. Unfortunately my ladder
wasn't tall enough. I needed help. None of the folks I knew were
home that Saturday morning but I noticed an open door directly
across from my house. I hurried upstairs to the second story flat in
the azure painted duplex and walked down the long corridor to
the living room. There on the sofa was a guy watching the football
game on T.V. I introduced myself and then proceeded to ask for
his assistance. He looked at me like I was crazy. The silence was
deafening. How often does a stranger enter your apartment with a
request for help with a major repair? I was flushed with
embarrassment but was in too deep to recover. Fortunately he
agreed to help me.
This uncommon beginning signalled the magic that lay before us.
The sparks flew. We went on our first date within days of this
meeting. Bryan's car was broken so we took the bus across the city
to an authentic Moroccan restaurant where we sat on paisley
cushions and ate with our fingers. I remember clearly how

15. primitive this felt and how natural it was to be with him. He didn't
seem the least bit concerned about my age. I, on the other hand,
was more sensitive. I was healing from a co-dependent
relationship of 12 years and had never experienced true
intimacy. I wasn't sure it was the proper thing to do but I couldn't
help myself; I was falling in love. I was scared because these
feelings were coming so quickly.
Bryan moved in with me within weeks of our first meeting. I
remember thinking if it didn't work out it would be easy to ask
him to leave because all he owned was a T.V.
For Valentine's Day he created a hanging wire mobile in the shape
of intertwined hearts and presented it to me with flowers and
chocolate.
This type of thoughtful gesture is typical of Bryan. He has never
missed a special occasion and has often surprised me with
jewellery when he returns from a business trip.
One evening in the spring we were waiting to board a dinner train
in Mendocino. A drunken man approached us and said, "How
come you two are dressed up? Are you getting married?" Bryan
looked at me and said, "Yes, we are aren't we?" That was his
proposal. It was decided we would plan a wedding for later that
year. But, first I needed to meet Bryan's mother.
Just the thought of it terrified me! Bryan and his mother, Sharon,
have a truly special bond. He insisted he would not tell anyone
about our engagement until she and I met. We drove to southern
California where Sharon was visiting her sister, Bryan's aunt. I felt
sick the entire trip. I knew in advance he was going to take his
mother shopping the next morning alone to break the news to her.
I couldn't sleep at all that night. What felt so "right" to Bryan and

16. me was unusual, especially in the eyes of a parent. When they
returned from their excursion Sharon looked like she had just
come from a funeral. Fortunately, for me, Aunt Toby accepted the
situation and eased the tension by giving me a white angel
ornament. His mother is a wonderful woman. In spite of her
disappointment, she welcomed me into their family. Over the
years our relationship has evolved into a unique friendship, a
cross between a peer and a sister.
December 7, 1986, dressed in an ivory colored Victorian gown, I
was driven to our wedding in a horse drawn carriage. I remember
the sensation well. As I heard the clip-pity clop of the hoofs hitting
the pavement I felt it was the happiest day of my life. The ride was
several miles long and I enjoyed cars honking loudly at every turn.
When we arrived at the elegant Alamo Square Inn Bryan was
waiting to escort me inside to the nuptials. It was a good thing he
took my hand, for as I exited the carriage, my knees collapsed
from shaking so hard. The day was spectacular marking a
lifetime of love.
Both Bryan and I had always wanted kids. By the time we met my
biological clock had run out. He told me he would rather marry a
woman he loved deeply than to wait for someone to bear his
children. For several years we were content to be a unit of two.
After my dear Aunt Letha died in 1992 I longed for a child. I knew
we would be good parents. Bryan agreed to adoption. It was an
arduous experience requiring patience and resilience. We had
several birthmothers who changed their minds for different
reasons. This process took three years and a great deal of money.
Ultimately we were blessed with a baby girl we named Mariah.
Our daughter is now 8 years old and the light of our life.

17. Bryan continues to be my rock, strength and loving support.
During our years together I have had many tragedies including:
my brother John's suicide in 1988, my ex- husband Joey's death
from alcoholism in 1989, and my girlfriend Debra's suicide in
2002. I was hospitalized with a potentially life threatening blood
clot in my lungs in 1998. Bryan stood by me through all of these. I
married a great guy! I am a fortunate woman to have found true
love in the heart of a younger man.
Age is but a notch on the tree of life. Does it really matter that I
have more than he. We are all on a spiritual path. We choose
lovers, friends and family to mirror our soul's development.
Partners of different ages can accelerate this growth. These
diverse emotional experiences are opportunities of a lifetime. Let's
enjoy them.
A young woman finds love with a
mature man

18. While mature women dating younger men is the latest trend,
there are women continuing to find beautiful relationships with
older men. Here is one of those stories.
I have been dating a man 20 years older than me (Couple with 41
year age gap). We have been together 6 months and have not had
any problems. He has a child (5) and so do I (3). I have been
married once for about 4 years and had been in a serious,
committed relationship with my husband for about 5 years prior
to that. My ex-husband had been cheating on me while I was
pregnant and started taking care of my newborn. Since I have
been in my new relationship, I have not been this happy in I don't
know how long. Our only real difference is our age - it took a little
bit to get used to, and of course, I was extremely careful just being
a younger woman, and afraid of taken advantage of. I knew him
for about two years and was attracted to him even before we
discussed our attraction and why we both had these feelings. I met
him through my father - they are like best friends. The age gap is
no big deal in his family but it's a little bit harder for my family
since they come from a fairly small Wisconsin town. This man is
wonderful: he loves and respects me, he's not bossy, he loves
helping out, he hardly acts or looks his age, but yet, he has the
wisdom that we need. We learn new things from each other all the
time. We have so many similarities despite being two decades
apart. As far as the lovemaking goes, it's better than perfect. Men
my age want as much as they can get, wherever they can get it and
just care about themselves. With this man, if I need or want
something, I don't even really need to say. He just knows. We have
no complaints; only we can't get enough of each other. Things are
so great that I sometimes get scared. Please tell me if it is all
normal and if there are other women like me.