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Google this month launched a new Web domain – .soy – that is “intended to create a place online for the Hispanic community,” because apparently, we have nothing to do with the whole .com community (or, as I like to call it, the regular Internet.)
But while the new domain has had its detractors and its share of criticism, I can assure you at least my Mexican friends are taking the whole thing very seriously.
To wit.
Gracias, @elementoL2
Call me crazy, but I think calling your Mexican restaurant Illegal Pete’s might not be a super terrific idea. Still, founder Pete Turner seems unaffected by the “fury” of about 50 people demanding a name change.
I’m sure it must be difficult to embark on a name change, especially if your name is Pete and you already has several restaurants open and many more to come. But, how about Undocumented Pete’s?
Just an idea!
Via: CBS Denver
So much for the VTG (Virgin Taco Gate).
Virgin, Virgin Mobile and Sir Richard Branson himself vehemently — and hilariously– have denied any involvement with the upcoming taco chain known as Virgin Tacos.
Virgin Mobile Mexico’s press release was actually funny and included some reference to the Virgin Taco Gate:
Unfortunately, we really suck at cooking Mexican food; however, we are very good at treating our customers as rockstars. […]
The “Taco confusion” has led to a series of hilarious tweets by both, Virgin Mobile Mexico and Sir Richard Branson himself, who incidentally was in Mexico this week.
@sopitas @parentesiscom @AlejandroFranco @BienMal_ Muchas gracias por una excelente charla ¿les gustaron los talk-quitos? @virginmobilemx
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) octubre 22, 2014
La competencia está bien enchilada y no por nuestras salsas… ¡por que no hacemos salsas! Damos servicio de telefonía celular como nadie.
— Virgin Mobile México (@virginmobilemx) octubre 22, 2014
Sir @richardbranson, el mero mero de Virgin, está en México. pic.twitter.com/2EOMXsEHbg
— Virgin Mobile México (@virginmobilemx) octubre 22, 2014
I totally missed this skit when it first aired on Saturday Night Live, but it’s funny as hell and deserves a spot on this venerable blog.
Watch, enjoy and –please– don’t take yourselves so seriously.
Behold the Salmon Cannon, a contraption that shoots salmon upstream, as this has become increasingly difficult because we humans just cannot leave fish and nature alone.
In a nutshell, the Salmon Cannon uses pressure to suck up a fish, send it through a tube at up to 22 mph and then shoot it out the other side, reaching heights of up to 30 feet. The contraption was used recently to move hatchery fish up a tributary of the Columbia River in Washington.
All this is great, of course, but knowing how “creative and entrepreneurial” the U.S. border patrol can get, I just hope it will not inspire any whacky ideas to start sending my people back to the other side of the Río Bravo.
A MexiCannon, anyone?
Hat tip: Kent German, Taco & Fisheries correspondent.
…Said some Mexican politician.
It took me a while, but after months of training in both, English and Spanish, Apple’s virtual assistant has finally understood that commands coming from Mexican people can be slightly more complex than then regular “check my mail” or “call my boss.”
So, thank you, Siri. But now, can you please elaborate and get to the rest of this thing? Here’s something that can help.
Taco Bell this week opened its first store of U.S. Taco Co., a spin-off that “seeks to satisfy Americans’ growing hunger for higher-quality food” than, say, everything else available out here.
And of course because this is America, people, U.S. Taco Co’s menu includes ‘The 1 Percenter,’ a $10 taco that contains lobster, garlic butter, roasted poblano crema and cilantro… because, as everybody knows, that’s what really rich people eat.
Oh, and in case you were wondering: This beauty does NOT come wrapped in a tortilla, no, señor! it comes on top of flatbread. You know? for the rich.
Excuse-me?!
via: Huffington Post
Mexicans craving for a non-alcoholic drink after a night of excesses in Italy need not look further from a “Cruda!” vending machine at their local Italian eatery.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
Oh, and yes, he packed Madison Square Garden last night (April 6, 2014)
Hat tip: @hazme
The song is a modern tale of betrayal and sadness in the age of WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. I feel so bad for the monolingual crowd (i.e. most gringos) who will miss on the awesome lyrics of this jewel, that I’m hereby translating some of its best parts:
I wrote you a WhatsApp but you didn’t reply
And on Facebook you have another relationship
Since I didn’t want to send you an Inbox
Better to just upload this song to YouTube
I closed my account to live happily with you
And I got rid of the girls you hated
Because of you, I lost all my friendsand nobody liked my ‘status’ any more […]
Sometimes I cry very close to my keys (keyboard)
[Unstranslatable]
I would love for you to follow me on Twitter
Even if I don’t really understand how that thing works
I have an unlimited, new iPhone,
I have a brand new account, different from all the others
I have a profile pic posing off with a new ‘vieja’
and now you won’t be able to stalk me ever again
Enrique Peña Nieto (aka as the Savior of Mexico) will meet today in Toluca with President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
But despite all the good vibes and buena onda around this meeting, I’m genuinely worried about Mr. Peña Nieto’s poor command of the English language. So, even though I didn’t vote for the chap, nor I think he is saving Mexico, I’d like to take this opportunity to offer him my services as a professional simultaneous translator; or if he so prefers, to facilitate proper subtituleishon for his speech -which I’m sure will be historic.
Said subtituleishon will look a little bit like this:
