Question Of The Day

Filipinos love a good riddle ... and answering crossword puzzles. Our desire to answer all the questions and completely finish the job gives us some kind of fulfillment, the need to continue and persevere until we accomplish the task. It tickles our brain cells, and we feel mighty proud once the cryptogram is decoded.

People ask why everybody loves Jessica Fletcher of Murder She Wrote? Or Ben Matlock or Jake and the Fatman.  Well,  they always solve mysteries.

Too bad, there are a lot of questions and mysteries out there that we may never learn the answers to their intriguing nature. The universe is far-reaching and its mysteries limitless, and there are many things that even geniuses have their arms raised upwards because they don't have answers to some of these queries. 

Let’s explore some of the questions that there are no answers to. Some of them have answers though ... like this one.

In Miss Universe 1969 Preliminary interview ... Gloria Diaz Miss Universe 1069 was asked:

Judge: Is it true that you Filipinos use your hands when you eat?

Gloria Diaz: Why do you use your feet?

Klap ... klap ... klap.  The answer is short, concise, and direct to the point. Para siyang si Kris Aquino sa pagiging taklesa ... siya siguro ang Q and A coach ni Gloria Diaz noon ... eh kung pabara-bara lang naman ang tanong bakit ka mahiya na pabara-bara din ang sagot na ibibigay mo. Tit for tat.

This will eventually cut the interview short. The judge who was given a dose of her own medicine .... gaganahan pa bang magtanong? I think not ... whatever follow-up questions she has was nip in the bud.

That was 1969 ... it may have worked at that time pero I doubt if it will work in this day and age when Miss Universe has spread its wings in the name of inclusivity - pwede na ang mga gurang ... ang mga may asawa ... ang mga tomboy  ... and mga plus-sized candidate ... and transgendered women. Parang circus na nga ang Miss Universe.

Maybe if that's the way you answer the questions today ... baka kukuyugin ka ng mga judges.