Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Heeeeeey, today was cool cuz I won a breakfast basket. I don't think these baskets are as common in the US, as they are in Brazil, but there might be a new market coming out with the baskets (but of course that the person who startes this business of breakfast baskets is Brazilian). This is how I got the basket:
There's a Brazilian show on the radio that goes on WORC 1310 of Worcester, and I call them sometimes to be famous among the Brazilian community that listens to the show, LMAO. Anyways, on the day of the final of the Copa America or "America Cup", (which is a soccer championship for the natianal teams of all South American teams) the hosts of the show were going to give away a basket to whoever got the final score of the game Brasil x Argentina right. I guessed that it was going to be 2x1 Brazil, but the actual game came out to be 2x2 (with a freaking goal of salvation by the Brazilian Adriano at the 48th minute of the second half. Soccer games finish at 45 minutes, but if there are too many interruptions, the ref will give some extra minutes). The game then went to Penalty kicks and all, the final score was 5x3 Brazil, so I didn't get the right results. So last week I called them and asked if anyone had gotten the right score, but no one could possibly have guessed the right thing. And then I kept bugging them to give me the basket, since no one claimed it, and my guess was pretty close. So then they told me that if I knew the answer to a riddle, they would give me the basket. Here's the riddle

"A Water Lily (or Vitoria Regia) on a lake gets bigger by half of its size on a single day. If the Water Lily covers the whole lake on the 100th day, how many days did it take the Lily to cover only half of the lake???"


I got it right off the bat, well I'd already heard the answer to that riddle, but it wasn't with a lily. So one week later I got the basket, and it had a party balloon saying "Happy Father's Day" LMAO, that was cheap!!!! There were some nice stuff in the basket though, like some Brazilian products that I hadn't eaten in a looong time (I won't say what the stuff was, cuz nobody will probably know what I'm talking about) ... But the fun part was getting on the guy's nerves so that they would give me the damn basket!!!

By the way, I won't say what the answer to the riddle is, let's see if anyone will get it right!!!

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