The guy who delivers our office supplies has a heavy Portuguese accent, and when he saw the National Geographic video about seals sitting on the table he smiled broadly and shouted, "Foka! Foka!"



"No," I said, "If you F..k one of those in this country I'm pretty sure you'll go to prison on some 'humping and endangered species' charge."

"No, no, no," he said quickly.

"Foka mean 'seal' in Portuguese."

"I see," I said pointing to the big seal next to the little seal in the picture.

"So I'm betting that that's the mother foka?"