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Monday, March 26, 2007

Flavoured Condoms out of flavour this season???

People. Its Official. Censor board chief Sharmila Tagore doesnt like XXX Flavoured condoms. Now before your dirty one track minds start working overtime, don't worry, I ain't that desperate, and she ain't that lucky.The ongoing Champions Trophy telecast was chequered with ads by XXX flavoured condoms. The ad shows a lady sucking on a grape provocatively and then asking the viewer, whats you flavour tonight? Well, the ad was more or less something like this. But Sharmila Tagore thought it was in "bad taste", and it should be removed of the air. Of course she's right, how can one use sex, to sell a condom. Sure its okay to show a half naked Malika Sherawat drink an ice cold 7-up. Or maybe the bikini clad Liril girl is okay to sell soap. But show a woman suck a grape for a condom ad? Woh buddy, there are kids in the room !! According to her, the ad could have been more tastefully done, like maybe the Moods condom ads, where they show a guy riding a bike with his lady love, and his maid, finds the condom pack in his room. I am telling you folks, until the maid actually picks up the pack of condoms, for the 37 seconds before that, you would think its an ad for the 125 cc Hero Honda Splendour. But that's what a condom ad should be like.So while we got busy bodies crusading against condom ads on television, or rather, condom ads on Prime time TV, we have an uncontrolled population explosion on one side, and HIV spreading faster than you can say pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis (also spelled -koniosis). Sharmila-ji thinks that the ad should have been telecast after 11pm. So while half the country has turned of the television, since India lost the match at 8 pm, and the other half is actually busy enjoying India's 2nd favourite past time(you don't think a billion people grew of trees did you), there's really no one around to see the ad. But hey, at least the innocent 8 year old kid didn't see it right?

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