![]() ![]() It has also been suggested that the poet, Paolo Manalo, is Bob Ong, but he has denied this. Neither is he actually named "Ong." The family name "Ong" just evolved out of play of words that was the BobOng Pinoy website. However, according to Bob Ong's account in Stainless Longganisa, he is not actually Filipino-Chinese. There has been occasional confusion between Bob Ong and Filipino-Chinese author Charlson Ong. The site received a People's Choice Philippine Web Award for Weird/Humor in 1998, but was taken down after former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada was ousted after the Second People Power Revolution. " Although impressed," Bob Ong notes, " my boss would've fired me had he known I was the one behind it." When someone contacted him after mistaking him as an actual person named Bob Ong, his famous pseudonym was born. The name of the site roughly translates as " Dumb Filipino," used fondly as a diminutive term. ![]() ![]() The pseudonym Bob Ong came about when the author was working as a web developer and a teacher, and he put up the Bobong Pinoy website in his spare time. ![]()
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