“The people of Bolivia welcome the president of Canada”
Couldn’t help to laugh on this piece of news taken from a not so interesting (* for me *) report about Brazil.
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Even some heads of state seemed clueless. “It’s nice to be in Bolivia,” Ronald Reagan told an audience on his first state visit to Brazil in 1982. His hosts took it sportingly. “The people of Bolivia welcome the president of Canada,” read the next day’s newspaper.
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—– A quick research using Google confirms that this is indeed a true story. * big smile * ——–
World’s first advert-only TV station
Hmm… an advert-only channel? Because of my habits to start switching between TV channels when ad is coming, it will be skipped all the time Programmers will soon find out when the world’s first channel devoted exclusively to adverts launches in September, allowing viewers to tune in 24 hours a day to their favourite 30-second spots for Guinness, Walkers and Yellow Pages.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Has television become so bad that viewers will shun the programmes to watch nothing but advertisements?
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And just to make sure viewers have time to get up and make a cup of tea, the Advert Channel also will have nine minutes of paid advertising per hour.
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Temperature in Tokyo hits record 39.5 degrees
Yeah.. right … it’s so hot in Tokyo lately … (and yet… I was playing football for at least an hour last Monday ^_^ futsal
inside the gym … but still …)
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Temperature in Tokyo hits record 39.5 degrees The temperature in Tokyo hit 39.5 degrees Celsius on Tuesday afternoon, the highest figure ever recorded in the capital of Japan since the government began measuring it in 1923, weather officials said. Mainichi Shimbun Tokyoites swelter in record-high heat near JR Shibuya Station on Tuesday. The previous highest temperature in Tokyo was 39.1 degrees Celsius on Aug. 3, 1994.Japan’s highest record stands at 40.8 degrees Celsius, which was recorded in Yamagata in July 1933. Several other cities in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, had scorching temperatures on Tuesday. The temperature rose to 39.5 degrees Celsius in Otemachi, downtown Tokyo, at about 1 p.m., 10.1 points higher than average.
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