Philippine Humour courtesy of Spoofs Limited

One of my favourite little stalls when I go to the Philippines is a little stall called Spoofs in SM city. SM is short for Shoe Mart, which I guess would be something like Macy's or JC Penney's in the US or Myer in Australia. It is a big national chain and attracts other stores around it, and SM city is a big shopping centre.

The little store I refer to is Spoofs, they sell a range of T-shirts and Mugs that are spoofs or spin offs of the actual brand or logo etc. I don't know how they get away with it legally, but I love looking at the ingenuity of the words and double entendres. There are many more, but these ones most will be able to identify. I have never bought anything from the stall, though the Fedup logo I wanted in a mug but they had sold out. Here are some samples.


- Instead of Desperate Housewives, Desperate Housebands! (Husbands)

- The Amazing Face like the race

- Fatman instead of obviously Batman



- The Fat and the Furious instead of fast and the furious.

- instead of 007 Die another day 700lbs Diet another day

- The cut off Ford logo says cannot AfFord lately



obviously this one is a spoof from apples ipod, but it is not advertising pot or marijuana but in the dialect of this place it would be pronounced "ee-put" meaning poo! too funny


FedEx logo after having some spoof treatment

Now this last one will require some explanation. Bonjing is a Filipino word referring to grown men who act like children. Not a phrase you would use to many men in the philippines whether they were or not, it is just humorous. I did see someone wearing the shirt as well!