Now we've pissed off the Brazilians.

The Pan American Games are getting underway in Rio De Janeiro. And somebody wrote on the message board at the U.S. media center, "Welcome to the Congo."

A press aide says it was just a reference to the heat wave, but Brazilians aren't buying that. They're still getting over the Simpson's episode that showed a Rio full of wild animals, criminals and sexpots.

And who can forget when President Ronald Reagan visited Brasilia and offered a toast to "the people of Bolivia."

As one writer put it in a letter in the O Globo newspaper, "Go back home! You're not welcome here, or in the Congo either."