# Brazilian Dopers: Rate "Lula" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516 "2009-03-31T23:58:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/1 "2009-03-31T23:58:45Z")
Brazilian president Lula (Luis Ignacio da Silva), is an interesting guy-he is a blud cllar gur, who once worked as a machinist. He has no university degree, and is not an intellectual. the guy has done pretty well-as president of a 300 million person country, he seems to be pretty well respected. During his tenure, Brazil has grown to become a major exporter of food, and an inductrial giant. the country is now self-sufficient in food and energy, and recently, Lula anounces a program to build 2 million house fo0r the poor. lula seems to have accomplished quite a lot-what do Brazilians think of him? ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/2 "2009-04-01T21:11:26Z")
Not Brazilian and no idea how Lula is doing, but a “blud cllar gur” is obviously a Cyrillic vampire of some sort, so I’d look for an uptick in unexplained deaths near the _Palácio do Planalto_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/3 "2009-04-01T22:04:27Z")
I met her in a club down in old Soho Where you drink champagne and it takes just like Coca-Cola C-O-L-A Cola . . . ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/4 "2009-04-01T22:08:32Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Brazilian president Lula (Luis Ignacio da Silva), is an interesting guy-he is a blud cllar gur, who once worked as a machinist. He has no university degree, and is not an intellectual. the guy has done pretty well-as president of a 300 million person country, he seems to be pretty well respected. During his tenure, Brazil has grown to become a major exporter of food, and an inductrial giant. the country is now self-sufficient in food and energy, and recently, Lula anounces a program to build 2 million house fo0r the poor. > lula seems to have accomplished quite a lot-what do Brazilians think of him? I don’t know what a blud cllar gur could possibly be, but Brazil does not have 300 million people; its population is a bit short of 200 million. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/5 "2009-04-01T22:12:11Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I don’t know what a blud cllar gur could possibly be, . I’m assuming it is Brazilian take on an Albanian pronunciation of a misheard/mangled Danish attempt at “blue collar guy.” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/6 "2009-04-01T22:30:41Z")
Dear God, he’s a blood seller? He lives in a blood cellar? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazilian-dopers-rate-lula/491516/7 "2009-04-02T15:42:33Z")
We’ll wait on the Brazilians, but at least from the POV of outsiders, there are surely many people in and out of Brazil who wish more of the new Latin “leftist” leaders were like Lula and fewer like Hugo. [hijack continues]Can we all pitch in to buy **ralph124c** a new keyboard? Sounds like a malfunction.[/hijack continues]