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Sanduíche-iche
Sanduíche-iche is an Internet meme that emerged in Brazil from an interview with nutritionist Ruth Lemos on TV Globo Nordeste in 2004. In it, Lemos stutters, saying the word "sanduíche-iche" ("sandwich-wich"). The video went viral in 2005 through the social network Orkut communities and was shown on the television program Pânico na TV. Lemos initially didn't like the repercussion, but, taking advantage of the visibility, she ran for state deputy. This is considered one of the first memes in Brazil. Origin On August 26, 2004, nutritionist Ruth Lemos gave a live interview on TV Globo Nordeste's ''Bom Dia PE'' about the eating habits of children. While speaking, she stuttered and said, among other Stuttering, stuttered phrases, "They need to know-know that even the sandwich-wich can have a nutritional value." Lemos is not a stutterer; the sound return delay caused her to repeat "because she thought she couldn't hear". She had never used an earpiece. Despite this, and laughing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelig Telecom
Intelig Telecomunicações Ltda., commonly known as Intelig Telecom, was a Brazilian telecommunications company, that offered fixed-line telephony services. It started operations on 23 January 2000, bringing for the first time concurrence on the long distance and international phone service. Local operations started in September 2003 and 2 years later, they launched a free dial-up Internet service, the InteligWeb. With an investment of R$2,8 billions, it started to build its infrastructure in 1999, even before entering operations. They have more than 16 thousand kilometers of fiber-optics in their network. Their headquarters are in Rio de Janeiro. In 2009, it was bought by Italian-Brazilian operator TIM Brasil, joining the two codes: 23:41, with the impetus to compete primarily with national Oi, using the codes 31 and 14 (former Brasil Telecom), beyond Embratel/ Claro, Vivo/Telefónica, GVT, and Nextel, both also multinationals. Operation Intelig started as a mirr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiza Que Está No Canadá
''Luiza que está no Canadá'' ("Luiza, who is in Canada") is a Brazilian Internet meme that arose from a television advertisement for a residential building in João Pessoa, Paraíba, the Boulevard Saint Germain, aired in January 2012. In the ad, Geraldo Rabello invites the family to talk about the development, "except Luiza, who is in Canada". The phrase soon became popular on Twitter and Facebook, quickly becoming one of the most talked about topics on the social networks. The phrase was quoted by celebrities and companies, and inspired the creation of a game. Luiza returned to Brazil on January 17, expressing her anxiety and nerves. Subsequently, she filmed a new commercial to replace the previous one. Following this, an official government network sparked controversy by quoting the meme in a joke. Years later, Luiza expressed a preference for anonymity, despite her success benefiting her father. Shortly after the incident, she took on roles related to the meme's origin and pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senhora?
Senhora? () is a Brazilian Internet meme that arose from an interview Edinair Maria dos Santos Moraes gave TV Anhanguera in 2015. Edinair, along with other servers of the Legislative Assembly of Goiás (Alego), was caught making an appointment and leaving soon afterward for three days. The reporter Renata Costa questioned the servant about this, who started running, being followed by the reporter who said, "Ma'am? Ma'am?". The interview was broadcast on September 28, 2015, and soon became popular on the Internet, inspiring mobile games and entering several best memes of the year lists, besides being the most searched term on Google in this category. After the case, Edinair was exonerated and left Goiânia, and Alego made changes to avoid cases like this. In retrospect, cases of people running away from interviews were compared to Edinair's. Origin On September 28, 2015, the report ''Assembly Servers clock in and out without working'' was released, recorded by TV Anhanguera of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuat (drink)
Kuat () is a brand of guarana beverage sold by The Coca-Cola Company in Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population .... Kuat was introduced in Brazil in 1997 to compete with the leading guarana beverage, Guaraná Antarctica, which was stealing market share from Coca-Cola's cola products. In Brazil, Kuat is available in a diet version (Kuat Zero) and a green-tea infused version (Kuat Eko). Kuat was briefly sold in Norway starting in 2003 under the name SanSão. In 2002, Coca-Cola announced plans to test market Kuat in the United States. See also * Guaraná Antarctica * Sanduíche-iche – a meme used in a Kuat advertizing campaign References External links * Kuatpublished by Coca-Cola Brasil Coca-Cola brands Brazilian brands Guarana sodas Products introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Brazilian Television
This is a list of Brazilian television related events from 2004. Events *6 April - Cida dos Santos wins the fourth season of ''Big Brother Brasil''. Debuts * ''Strawberries with Sugar'': the Portuguese soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ... is launched on UOL Television shows 1970s *'' Turma da Mônica'' (1976–present) 1990s *'' Malhação'' (1995–2020) *'' Cocoricó'' (1996–2013) 2000s *'' Sítio do Picapau Amarelo'' (2001–2007) *'' Big Brother Brasil'' (2002–present) *''FAMA'' (2002-2005) Networks and services Launches Conversions and rebrandings Closures Ending this year References See also * 2004 in Brazil * List of Brazilian films of 2004 {{Brazil-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceará State University
The Ceará State University (, UECE) is a public university in the Brazilian States of Brazil, state of Ceará. It is the second largest university in Ceará, the eighth best state university in Brazil and considered the best state university in the North, Northeast and Center-West of the country. Established in 1975 by the Act No. 9.753 which authorizes the State Executive Branch to create Ceará State Educational Foundation (FUNEDUCE), UECE is the largest state university of Ceará. It is involved in teaching, research and science outreach in many areas of knowledge. Its structure consists of a network of campuses that privileges the courses aimed at the training of teachers. The undergraduate programs in Business Administration, Accounting and Psychology are among the best in the country according to Students Performance National Exam (Enade). On January 27, 2021, the then governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, authorized the start of construction of the Ceará University Hospita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extra (newspaper)
''Extra'' is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in April 1998 by Grupo Globo, Infoglobo, the newspaper quickly became one of the best selling in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. Closing 2010 with an evolution of 12.97%, reaching 302,697 copies sold. With the success in the Rio de Janeiro (state), fluminenses banks, the Extra gains an online version (Extra Online). The site was redesigned with thematic pages, and soon was also successful in the network, with 6 million visitors. Extra is now one of the few newspapers focused on women, being 57% women and 43% men. Leading in the age group of 30 to 50 years. The Extra is formed by 3 notebooks (Extra, Extra Game and Extra Session), dealing with different subjects. Extra Notebook – Rio 2016 and Carioca Championship – 3rd Notebook Extra Session – Television, Cinema, Show and Modern Life – In addition to the daily notebooks, the Extra has weekly notebooks. Sunday: Extra Property – Offers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pernambuco
Pernambuco ( , , ) is a States of Brazil, state of Brazil located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.5 million people as of 2024, it is the List of Brazilian states by population, seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,067.877 km2, it is the List of Brazilian states by area, 19th-largest in area among federative units of the country. It is also the sixth-most densely populated with around 92.37 people per km2. Its capital and largest city, Recife, is one of the most important economic and urban hubs in the country. Based on 2019 estimates, the Recife metropolitan area, Recife Metropolitan Region is seventh-most populous in the country, and the second-largest in Northeast Region, Brazil, northeastern Brazil. In 2015, the state had 4.4% of the national population and produced 2.8% of the national gross domestic product (GDP). The contemporary state inherits its name from the Captaincy of Pernambuco, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emoticon
An emoticon (, , rarely , ), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using Character (symbol), characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and Alphabet, letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail. ASCII emoticons can be traced back hundreds of years with various one-off uses. The protocol as a way to use them to communicate emotion in conversations is credited to computer scientist Scott Fahlman, who proposed what came to be known as "smileys"—:-) and —in a message on the bulletin board system (BBS) of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the direction of the text. Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called ''kaomoji'', using Kana, Japanese's larger character sets. This style arose on ASCII NET of Japan in 1986. They are also known as ''verticons'' (from ''vertical emoticon'') due to their re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
