Comments on: Portugal’s Empire Strikes Back

By: Bithead

Bithead — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:25:37 +0000

Never forget it was a Portuguese doctor who brought us the "frontal lobotomy."

And so it was for hundreds of years that the Portuguese didn't know what the Brazilians were doing.

Or something.

vilmar — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:18:14 +0000

Never forget it was a Portuguese doctor who brought us the "frontal lobotomy."

Got a Nobel for it, too.

Dave Schuler — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:59:48 +0000

What's next? The Portuguese royal family pulling up stakes and moving to Brazil? That happened nearly 200 years ago.

Bithead — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:46:27 +0000

It's been widely noted that Brazilians scream more than the Portugese. A cultural difference, perhaps? Or, just better novacaine?

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