What a way to start a Thursday. Pick up the newspaper and the top headline is: Cavaco Silva interrupts his holidays to talk to the nation... tonight.... about something QUITE important.

Cavaco (who, for the benefit of everyone outside of Portugal, and a good many Angles IN Portugal who probably think that Mário Soares is still in the job, is the President of the Republic) hasn't done this before. His colleagues are saying that only something truly important would bring him to do such a thing, in his holidays and everything!

So, in our house today we're running a sweepstake. What will Cavaco say?

Please join in. The winner will receive erm... .... ... quite a bit of kudos.

Will it be:

a. speaking from the Bahamas from a private yacht, that he has abandoned the country and all of us to complete bankruptcy (financial and moral) and he got out while he could, sorry, but see ya!

b. speaking from a bunker somewhere in the Azores, that he has abandoned the country because he was sick of it all and released an unheard-of deadly virus on us.

c. that we'd better hold on tight, because Portugal has come unzipped from Spain and we're about to float off into the Atlantic, and that there'll be an almighty bump when we hit Madeira (see above).

d. that the nation must drive carefully this weekend, this being the busiest and deadliest of the Portuguese year.

e. that he's resigning for health or boredom reasons

f. that he's firing Sócrates, because if Sampaio gets to fire a prime minister, so does he. Nyeugh.

g. just to say that "I'm having a lovely holiday and I thought it would be more personal to send a televised talk to the nation than some crappy old postcard."

h. we're all screwed. goodbye.

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written by Vitsma , July 31, 2008

Is that the English quite (a bit more th

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written by lucy , July 31, 2008

kind of somewhere inbetween

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written by Gabrielle , July 31, 2008

That Portugal has finally been sold off

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written by Ana , July 31, 2008

I don´t know... but it bodes...

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written by lucy , July 31, 2008

gabrielle, you CAN have a new iphone if

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written by Ana , August 01, 2008

Oh, blast... and I just lost Bruce Willi

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written by lucy , August 01, 2008

oh... Aníbal.... you had us waiting all

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written by Vitsma , August 01, 2008

So what is the answer?

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written by Ana , August 01, 2008

Come now, Lucy, you´ve been here long en

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written by Mimisa , August 01, 2008

Ah, Lucy... Ana´s right. You should know

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written by lucy , August 02, 2008

girls, you´re right... i should know bet