Taken from
Chico Garcia's blog
(FYI, he's the other half of the The Morning Rush w/ Chico and Delamar @ rx 93.1)
The Top Ten Signs That Someone Is A Social Climber
(listeners send in their entries to the topic via text, YM, FB or landline. The best entries are shown below)
1. Bellamarie – My mom was in the house of her beauty queen/actress friend. Mom: “Wow, I love the ambience ha!” Beauty Queen/Actress: “Naku asawa ko nag-ayos ng bahay eh, kaya hindi ko alam kung saan niya nabili yun…”
2. No name – My brother was in an FX when a pa-sosyal lady beside him said, “NO LIKE THAT-an!” (“walang ganyanan” in Tagalog) to someone she’s talking to on the phone. And what was her phone? A Bayantel wireless landline!
3. Nixon – Friend: “Starbucks nanaman? I’m so sawa na, I’m always here eh!” Me: “What do you usually order ba?” Friend: “Uhm…kape?”
4. Bajoink – In Sbarro, a feeling sosy Pinay with a foreigner boyfriend was asked: “What sauce would you like on your pasta?” The Pinay haughtily answered: “Ketchap.”
5. Louise Lane – I work for an expensive Japanese resto in a 5-star hotel. When I told a couple that we only had plain iced tea, the lady exclaimed: “Anong klaseng restawran to, wala man lang RED iced tea!” Eh ang nagse-serve lang naman ng RED iced tea at the time was Tokyo Tokyo!
6. Mary – An officemate always wears MANGO, pero nangungutang ng P50 pang McDo tapos hindi nagbabayad.
7. Lingere – If you say stuff like: “I wanna work in a bank. Nandun ang pera.”
8. Dru – Kung naka-iPhone nga, prepaid naman, tapos wala pang load.
9. His cuteness – A friend was asked what his dad did for a livin. He answered: “Cardiologist.” (taga-ayos ng radio sa car)
10. Lingerer – When I ran into a friend at a mall parking lot, I asked, “O, anong ginagawa mo dito?” He answered: “I have a car!”
11. Jarod – When we were in Kenneth Cole, a lady in her 30′s asked the saleslady: “Miss, diba kapatid ni Kenneth Cole si Cole Haan?”
12. No name – A pa-sosy date ordered steak, and she added: “Medium rare, please!” Pagdating ng steak, she goes: “Yak, may dugo! Hilaw pa!”
13. Meatball – Friend: “Yah were always in Baguio, in Camp John Wayne!”
14. No name – Cousin: “I don’t eat regular grapes, excuse me! I only eat the boneless!”
15. Carla – In New Jersey, the waitress asked ow we wanted our eggs. Me: “Poached please.” Cousin: “Scrambled for me.” Her friend: “Me sunny outside.”
16. Frederique – When we saw Carmi Martin in the mall, I shouted: “Hi Carmi!” She smiled and waved back. My friend asked kung kilala ko siya. I answered: “Aba siyempre naman, kilala ko siya! Pero ako, hindi niya kilala…”
17. Geyp – If you shorten the brand names to, “LV, Havs, and D&G”, not because you’re a suki, but because you can’t pronounce the long versions.
18. No name – I heard 2 girls in our school talking. Girl 1: “Oh my gawd, I looove Linea Italia!” Girl 2: “Oh my gawd, me too! I looove their pasta!”
Another one, also from Chico Garcia's blog
The Top Ten Social Climbing Moments Or Quotes
1. Hannah – I know of a group of girls at our office who would eat at Jollibee first before a gimik in Malate. Mahal daw kasi ang food sa mga bars.
2. Astroboy – Madalas nakakasabay ako ng mga taga-”kol senner” agents sa elevator, english nang english. One time I heard one say, “we’re gr0und.” Akala ko nakuryente, yun pala ibig niyang sabihin, “nasa ground floor na tayo.”
3. Riverbanks – Me and my friends were talking about the new Adidas Pilipinas jacket and a newly introduced friend pers0n interrupted, “Ah, parang yung jacket ko na Abercr0mbie & Peaches!”
4. Darney – A friend was asked what foreign languange she spoke, and she said, “French, Italian and GENOVIAN!” Hello, Princess Diaries!
5. Madstick – I am a member of another online forum. We have this other member who said she was leaving for the US. So when she allegedly left and was online, my friend who was a moderator got curious about where she really was and checked her IP address. The result was the IP address belonging to: SMART BRO
6. No name – When we were in high school, I had a girl classmate who once told us that her family bought igorots and made them their alila.
7. Dru – In high school, a classmate bragged that she is personally acquainted with New Kids on the Block, claiming they went to their house to avoid the press!
8. Northeast – During the interment of our uncle, my cousin who was saying as she was crying, “Papa! Papa!” for everyone to hear. Lahat kaming umiiyak, muntik ng matawa sa gitna ng libing kasi we all know that my cousin calls her father “Itay”.
9. Blair – A friend suggested we hang out at Embassy. Our social climber friend, in her fake sosy accent said, “Sure! Why not? Which country? Puwede pala tumambay sa mga embassy?”
10. Rich – A social climber bragged that she just got back from Europe. When asked where in Europe, she answered, “Sa ano…sa city mismo!”
11. Ynaki – When the flight stewardess of SwissAir asked this pa-sosyal seatmate of mine what he wanted to drink after I ordered a bourbon on the rocks, he, with a matching fake English accent, told her “J&B on the rocks…no ice, please!”
12. No name – I overheard this at the Asian Hospital just this week. Doctor: “Prior to your minor operation, I have to apply local anesthesia, ok?” Patient: “Mas guso doc kung imported. Kaya ko namang bayaran eh.”
Originally Posted by Fred_Nietzsche
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