A sad day in Dirtville (file under "ass" redux)

[Botafogo]

I had just returned from Brasil where there is a guy selling ice cold coconut water on every corner (and for 25 cents!!!!) only to find Tom Hanks spouting on every fluff interview hyping the movie that "I lost 40 pounds by drinking lots and lots of coconut water". Well, weight loss being one of the largest markets in America, I went crazy trying to get investors to set up CocoFrio stands (a cart with a sort of drillpress meets soda fountain that drains the coconut sanitarily then runs the water through a copper tube jacketed in dry ice to make it super cold) on every busy upscale street and mall in America (where we could easily charge $2.50-3.00). I even had pictures of the guys with lines of customers in Ipanema. I figured with Oscar Boy Hanks touting the product on the Today show it would be a shoe-in. No one got it....so here I am still floggin wines instead of retired to a cidade marivilhosa.....

com soudade, Robertinho

[This message has been edited by Botafogo (edited 08-14-2001).]

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