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26 - joaquin
Clavos and Doc,
I saw your posting regarding cocomment. Sorry you are having problems. Can you send me the url where you had this issue so I can send it to our team?
Tks
I can't post my email but will check your reply.
27 - Dr Dreadful
Don't worry, Zedd. When I was in Brazil I was constantly having to catch myself to keep from using the wrong word-ending.
It could be worse. Apparently, when the Lakota (Sioux) Indians were first shown the movie Dances with Wolves, they spent most of the film in hysterical mirth. Apparently, in the Lakota language, men and women actually speak different dialects... and the dialog coach on the movie was a woman. She'd just decided it was easier to teach all the actors (most of whom were not Lakota) her language rather than confuse them.
So it was not that the Lakota thought the movie was laughably bad. It was just the spectacle of big, strong, fierce warriors walking around talking like women.
28 - Dr Dreadful
Don't worry, Zedd. When I was in Brazil I was constantly having to catch myself to keep from using the wrong word-ending.
It could be worse. Apparently, when the Lakota (Sioux) Indians were first shown the movie Dances with Wolves, they spent most of the film in hysterical mirth. In the Lakota language, men and women actually speak different dialects... and the dialog coach on the movie was a woman. She'd just decided it was easier to teach all the actors (most of whom were not Lakota) her language rather than confuse them.
So it was not that the Lakota thought the movie was laughably bad. It was just the spectacle of big, strong, fierce warriors walking around talking like women.
29 - Clavos
When and where were you in Brasil, Doc?
Have we talked about this before/
30 - Dr Dreadful
Last November, Clav. It is when I discovered that the caipirinha is the Drink of the Gods.
I mentioned this some time ago, whereupon you related the anecdote of your wife knocking back caipirinhas as if they were lemonade and subsequently falling off her bar stool.
Although you can get some pretty fantastic caipirinhas even from vendors on Copacabana Beach, the very best ones I tasted were actually made by a bartender in our hotel in Foz do Iguaçu. Not exactly the cachaça capital of the world, one would have thought. Just goes to show, you never know.
31 - Clavos
Ah, yes. Now I remember (the memory thing is a residual effect from the cachaça)!
By any chance, did you stay at the Das Cataratas at Iguaçu? It, and the rest of the chain it belongs to, were owned by the company I worked for, back in the seventies.
32 - Dr Dreadful
Alas, no, Clav, although that would have been nice. That's the one right by the falls, right? On the Brazil side or the Argentina side?
We stayed at a place called the Recanto Park, which I believe was a brand new hotel - and I'm bolstered in this hypothesis by the fact that they still hadn't finished building the front of it when we were there! It was, however, an extremely nice place with great facilities. Some way out of town, though.
33 - Clavos
Yes, the Das Cataratas is on the Brasilian side, right on the falls. In fact, it's right in the middle of the Parque Nacional de Iguaçu
It's a charming, rambling hacienda style colonial building. You can literally walk to the Garganta do Diablo from the hotel.
The hotel is part of the Hoteis Tropical chain; they have an equally charming, similar hotel directly on the Amazon at Manaus.
34 - Dr Dreadful
Yes, I remember it, or at least glancing at it while dodging the hordes of thieving coatis...
Unless I'm mistaken, the video you linked to was shot from the viewing platform on the Argentina side. Curiously enough, my laptop wallpaper is currently the Garganta del Diablo from almost the same spot - you can even make out that weird-looking tree shaped like a wildebeest's head.
35 - Kraloyun
Great post