You have to love Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. He’s come up with something that surely proves he’s: 1) got the best sense of humour ever; 2) got a misguided idea about how this phone naming thing goes; or 3) mental.
According to the Telegraph, the new phone he’s punting has a rather odd name. It’s called the Vergatorio. And for anybody who speaks the lingo, and understands what that word means, I apologise.
For everyone else, it means… er… um… how best to put this? It’s a body part that if you were christened Helen or Gemma or Susan, for example, you won’t have…
I’m sorry, I need to stop writing this blog post, until I’ve stopped sniggering. Back in a tick.
*guffaw, guffaw, guffaw*
Ah, that’s better. Now, to be fair, the idea behind the Vergatorio seems to be a chuffin’ good one. It’s designed to be a reasonably high-end phone, but at a lower price point, bringing features like MP3 player and internet to the masses’ phones. To quote Mr Chavez, the phone is “light, beautiful, good and cheap. It is science and technology at the service of the people not the elites… the day will arrive when we manufacture phones for Cuba and Latin America. This telephone will be the biggest seller not only in Venezuela but the world. Whoever doesn’t have a Vergatorio is nothing.”
I’m really hoping there’s a caveat to that last sentence, saying “unless you’re by way of being a woman”, otherwise he’s just annoyed roughly 50% of the entire world’s population…
Anyway, back to the phone. Sure, it’s no HTC Magic, but for what it is, it sounds pretty cool. It’s just that name. Snigger. Well, let me be the first one to do the obvious joke…
Is that a Vergatorio in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Normal service will be resumed when I’ve stopped laughing…
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