Brazil has been held in the highest regard these last nineteen years, riding high the one hit wonder wave of their sole contribution to society, the Brazilian wax.

What is perhaps the greatest single inovation for humankind in the last thirty five years, that pop cultural phenomenon that we all hold dearest (and on good occasion, nearest), was the last we had heard from that “can do” Brazilian spirit when it was imported to this continent almost twenty years ago by New Yorker’s.

But today, Brazil’s star is on the wax again, as the first Brazilian astronaut has entered the International Space Station. His name is Marcos Pontes, a Brazilian air force pilot who actually became a spaceman on liftoff, two days ago (Brazil has an air force?). From the London Telegraph:

During the mission, Mr Pontes will carry out a series of scientific experiments, and will examine Brazil’s surface from space.

Right, um, look, if we can keep from writing things like, “Pontes reports it looks like it will be a smooth re-entry”, then you should be able to stop thinking it.

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But where would one store an iPod equipped with iBuzz? In in its natural habitat, of course.

Insert your own innuendo here, we are up to are ears in it as it is. Via Strange New Products.

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