A man was sued by a woman for defamation of character. She charged that he had called her a pig. The man was found guilty and fined.

After the trial he asked the judge, "This means that I cannot call Mrs. Johnson a pig?" The judge said that that was true.

"Does this also mean I cannot call a pig Mrs. Johnson?" the man asked. The judge replied that he could indeed call a pig Mrs. Johnson with no fear of legal action.

The man looked directly at Mrs. Johnson and said, "Good afternoon, Mrs. Johnson."

In Singapore, living in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB), people have already got used to Paying And Paying (PAP). In fact, you don't just pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB). If that's not enough,somebody still Purposely Want to Dig (PWD) from you.

What can you do if you are in a Money Oriented Environment (MOE). With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA) which make some people Permanently Owe Some Banks (POSB) and live on Loan Techniques Always (LTA).

When you are sick, you might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund, if you happen to be admitted to the Money Operated Hospital (MOH) on time. If you are out of luck, you may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you and you would be.

Sure to Give-up Hope (SGH). When that happens, Call Home (CH), you deserve a better place to recuperate.To help to ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressways (COE). If that doesn't help, the Lousy Tax Accounting (LTA) can always Effectively Raise Prices (ERP If you don't own a car, you can always go for the Mad Rush to Train (MRT) and get squashed Side by Side (SBS).

Under all these pressures, there is not many places we can go to relax not even to the good old places we used to go to, because it has become So Expensive Nothing To See (SENTOSA).

When Raffles stepped out of his boat on to Boat Quay,a man was running by announcing the birth of his son in hokkien. "See ta poh, see ta poh".

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Version 2 (Indian Version)
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I thought the story was like this:-
The malay/Indian King, Paremeswara, was sleeping under a tree and was dreaming. He was rudely awakened by an animal resembling a lion.So out of shock, he screamed "Singa porda! Singa porda" (which means, "lion get lost!")

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Version 3 (Malay Version)
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When Raffles sailed up the Singapore River for the first time, a Malay lady was bathing in the river, having left her clothes on the river bank, a Babu Singh came by and stole her colthes. The upset lady started shouting after him, "Singh Kapoh!Singh Kapoh!" (Kapoh means "steals!")