Welcome to La Charada 2.0
La Charada China is a Cuban tradition based in the lottery play of the Cuban provinces. From what i’ve figured out, and please educate me if i’m wrong – Numbers runners, in order to attract more folks into playing the lottery or “los numeritos” came up with a ‘sort of’ dream interpretation chart where objects, situations, people and animals had numerical assignment. The Number 1 is represented by a horse, so if one dreamt of a horse, one played that number in the lotto. The number 4 is represented by a Cat. Nunber 8 is ‘corpse’ and 10 is ‘a large fish’. And so on until you reach 100.

There are stops on the way for Betrayal, (# 98) and Luxury Car (# 79) even New York ( #87) makes an appearance.
In the spirit of gen ñ Network – our brand new Latin Thing, to paraphrase the Fania All-Stars, we present La Charada 2.0 – a new millennium charada. We need your help to add to our list and email it in. We’re just getting started. We’ll mention everyone with additional entries that we use by name and we’ll give away a genuine generation ñ prize – to be announced next week – to one random winner from all the entries. Add to the list and enter at bill@generation-n.com

El Cellular – 1
El iPhone Case – 2
Orangina – 3
Dolphin Mall – 4
Tres Patines – 5
El Chapulin Colorado – 6
Michael Scott – 7
Tina Fey – “La Fey” – 8
El Big Tuna – 9
El Thermostat – 10
La Sullen Teen – 11
Escuela Charter – 12
Los iPods – 13
El Pinkie Ring – 14
HBO (Home Box Office) * Replaces ON TV from the early 80s Charada – 15
El Enron – 16
El Bubble – 17
Los Smartest Guys in the Room – 18
El Bailout – 19
El ‘bro’ – 20
La Impartial Journalist – 21
La generacion ñ (Shameless Plug) – 22
Casa Larios – 23
Sasquach/The Skunk Ape – 24
El Chupascabra – 25
El Wan-stache – 26
El Chuck Norris – 27
El Cine del Peso * Holdover from the 70s list – 28
El Bootleg DVD – 29
La HighSpeed Internet Connection – 30
Mr. T – 31
La Doublé Cara – 32
El Ocean Drive en Español – 33
Rolex – 34
Fake Rolex – 35
El Don Bailey Carpets Sign – 36
Tony Montana – 37
Sebastian the Ibis – 38
El Chief Osceola – 39
Los Cocodrilos de Centro De La Florida – En Gainsville – 40
El Leased Ferrari – 40
El Condo – 41
El Plante – 42
Houston’s – 43
El Velvet Rope – 44
El Gie’ye – 45
El European Tag – 46
Los Steroids – 47
El Blunt – 48
Los Sienfeld Reruns – 49
El Babalu blog – 50

Presenting… The New Charada!

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