TU + GO = GOUT

     I am amused more than being fed up with the unimaginative and oftentimes asinine campaign slogans the public has to endure seeing on TV.   I don’t have to spell out the ludicrousness of some of the ads when, say you are being asked to plant a vegetable in the senate, or to proclaim that he is an idol or something… well, I think you get the point.

     Inspired perhaps by Dan Brown’s da Vinci Code, or probably due to lack of a better creative imagination, campaign hucksters for both Team Unity and Genuine Opposition candidates came up with their own acronyms – equally silly and nonsensical – evidently to provide some sort of mnemonic aid or name recall to the voters come election time. 

     For one – its something like giving something for the kids.  For the other - in a rather subversive-like tone – its something like planning some revolt.   I wouldn’t know exactly the extent of time and brain power these geniuses have used up in coming up with those anagrams, which are apparently taken from the first letters of the candidates’ names. 

     But for less than twenty minutes, I had fun mingling up letters of the party names, and came up with some very interesting results.  Whether these are apropos to the party concerned, I prudently refrain from saying these are so. (wink)

     First off, the acronyms TU and GO.  Personally I find the names painfully inappropriate.  For instance, Team Unity – they could not possibly pass off an utterly scandalous alliance of convenience as even nearing the concept of unity.  As if the inclusion of the likes of Oreta and Sotto, would bring the nation into the verge of solidarity.  Nothing could insult our intelligence more.

     In the same vein, I couldn’t discern the genuineness of the opposition in the Genuine Opposition.  Opposition to what?  Save for some candidates, its more of blind loyalty to Erap or extreme hate of GMA’s guts.  While I agree to the reality of the rampant corruption being pictured in their TV ads – what I cannot stand however is the hypocritical irony of the message being delivered, in all seeming conviction, by no less than Erap – the president supposedly thrown out from office and currently being prosecuted for plunder.

     Thus –

     TU + GO = GOUT

     They are painfully sanctimonious – they’re like arthritic attacks to our senses. 

     I also came up with anagrams for the words TEAM UNITY and GENUINE OPPOSITION.  Here they are:
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