Jacare Banguela (.br) means literally the “Toothless Alligator”. It’s the most successful humor blog in Brazil and a powerful source of Internet memes. The most successful meme, indeed, is the one which spreads Jacare’s trademark: Any sign that mimes an alligator spread mouth (made with hands, legs, etc) eating something. Another successful meme is the “Drunken of the Week Award”, also featured above. I’ve collected some of the most creative from Brazilians all over the world to you:
Giselle Bundchen lookalike…
Welder Rodrigues from Cia da Comedia:
Daniel Xavier, one of the Cartoon Networks producers asked his friend Jhonnie to draw this one:
Long ago most of Brazilian business chose their names from French or Italian if they wanted to look cool. So there was a bunch of “boulevards, coiffeurs, belvedere”, etc. From the 50’s onwards, Brazilians started to use English, instead. This is a collection of pics send to Kibeloco from people in all country’s corners. Brazilians trying to write English:
Some guys organized this flash mob in Sao Paulo (man, I love this town), in 2004. They repeat the event every year since then. This one was set up in Avenida Paulista and environs, the Brazilian version of Wall Street, NY. The red columns building is Museu de Artes de Sao Paulo, known as MASP - Sao Paulo Arts Museum, which abbreviation in English spells SPAM (!).
Niagara Fools is an old Woody Woodpecker cartoon episode and this episode in particular has become very popular in Brazil, god only knows why (maybe because it’s fun as hell? March! heh).
The footage and edition were made by Fabio Yamaggio and the flash mob organized by Ana Paula.
As I’ve posted before, Brazilian tech industry between the 70’s and the 90’s bootlegged every succesful design from the major foreign industries. Atari 2600 was a kind of an exception. Although some designs like the “Dactari”, the “Dactar” and the Dynavision were almost a copy of the 2600 with minor changes, Polyvox, a subsidiary of Brazilian consumer electronics industry Gradiente, bought the license and started to produce a local, legal version of this console. Bellow the TV ad of the product, sold as a high-tech device that would impress all your neighbors and even put you in trouble with the cops . For I was a proud owner of a ZX-Spectrum clone, though, I’ve never had a gaming console and never felt as I needed one, by the way. :^)
