Explaining Brazilian humor sometimes challenges this writer.
But I’m going to give it a go.
Before you read any further, please look at the video that I've embedded above.
And, if your browser doesn’t show it embedded, click here to see it:
As a matter of fact, you might want to do that anyway.
Because the embedding cuts off the right side of the image.
Okay, you’ve seen the video?
Because the embedding cuts off the right side of the image.
Okay, you’ve seen the video?
Now admire the poster.
Think you now know what the cala boca galvão movement is all about?
Well, you don’t.
Here’s the real Galvão.
That’s right, a person, not a parrot.
Galvão Bueno is Brazil
He does play-by-play on all sorts of sports.
Especially football (soccer).
The thing about Galvão is that he talks a lot.
Some people like it.
Others go as far as accusing him of being a bombastic cliché machine and wish he’d shut up and let them enjoy the games.
The World Cup, as I don’t have to tell you, is being played out.
Galvão is calling most of the games.
We’re all hearing him a lot.
And, if you go into a Brazilian bar, or other public place, when a game is on, you’ll often hear someone say “cala boca, Galvão”, the literal meaning of which is “shut up Galvão”.
And, now, in a typical manifestation of Brazilian humor, non-Portuguese speakers around the world are being enlisted to participate.
Under false pretenses.
What they think they’re doing is supporting a movement to save a nonexistent parrot called the galvão.
What they’re actually doing is signing an electronic petition telling Galvão Bueno to shut up.
And over one million of them have already done it.
And over one million of them have already done it.
And, now, there’s this:
If you don’t see it embedded, go here:
As a footnote to the main event, other Brazilians have plugged in phony subtitles to this YouTube video. They purport to show Hitler reacting to the phenomenon. The Lady Gaga comment refers to a secondary hoax, now being spread, that Cala Boca Galvão is actually the title of a new song recorded by Lady Gaga. (The large titles are in Portuguese, but there are small ones, in English, above the image.)
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