One of the best feelings in the world is getting a joke in portuguese that requires not only a decent grasp of the language but also a bit of background knowledge, so I made a little happy/smug face when I saw this joke from Hugo Van der Ding
Bazar is obviously a noun in the shop sign because Bazar can mean the same as the English word Bazaar. Well they’re probably both derived from Arabic aren’t they? No, Google says Persian. Anyway, so this is the Carmo Bazaar. Fine. But bazar can also mean something like go away very quickly. So it’s something like “skeddaddle” or “get lost” or “buzz off”.
So Marcelo Caetano, the guy who took over from Salazar as dictator after he had an argument with a chair, was holed up in o Quartel do Carmo, headquarters of the Guarda Nacional Repúblicana and after a tense stand off he was made to surrender to General Spinola and then told to push off into exile. It’s a solid pun and I approve.
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