Word: jeepney
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...that I (and millions of other Filipinos) have never carried a gun in my life. I was born in Tondo and lived there many years, but I didn't realize that the collection of trash and scrap paper is the principal occupation in my birthplace. In all my Jeepney-riding years, I have never had pigs and call girls as co-passengers. Both are easy to identify in my country...
...high-wheeled horse-drawn calesas of old Manila, with their tasseled canopies and courtly cocheros, have given way to the ubiquitous Jeepney, a freelance taxicab that typically sports a high-gloss enamel finish in rainbow hues, Playboy-bunny mudguards, pink-fringed roof, and a sign that reads "God Is My Copilot." Crammed with such passengers as pigs, chickens, guitarists and call girls, and plagued with an absence of brakes and springs, the Jeepney needs celestial guidance...