America turns Left

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 28 09:26:50 CST 2002



Otto wrote:
> 
> What does Lula mean? Octopus Grigori for president.
> Heard it recently on the wonderful Deutschlandfunk
> http://www.dradio.de/ radio that he's called Lula (squid)
> because he's always hugging everyone.

It's one of his names. In Brazil people have very long names so they
often shorten them, and it's an endearment,  kinda like PELE. I wonder
if the press will attack him for his "stupidity" and his illiteracy
(like W he butchers his own language) or if they will resort to calling
him (as W's father did of Sad Am during the gulf war) a shoeshine boy?



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