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Subject: Re: Can somebody post Tommy Mac stuff <---------- now about condoms
Date: 22 Feb 2016 04:06:24 GMT
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From: "|--Spike=-" <|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK>
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I remember watching a British stand-up comedian (Jasper Carrot) way
back in my teens about 30 years ago doing a short routine about being
in an Australian store and somebody asking for Durex, when asked what
size ?!...... "GIANT Size !!!"
Jasper explained that it was the best selling brand of sticky tape in
Australia, but I always wondered if that was true :)
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Durex - the sticky-tape - was, as I remember it, the ONLY brand, so by default, it had to be the best-selling brand. Jasper Carrot's routine was based upon fact.
Some 43 or 44 years ago, I worked briefly with a man from South Africa, and he got all embarrassed when one of the office girls asked him if he had any Durex; totally lost for words, he was.
It's interesting how moral values have changed over the last 50-odd years...
When I was a school-boy, condoms were called "french letters", or "frenchies", and they were whispered about when out of the teacher's hearing. They were discreetly hidden from public view under the counter at the pharmacy, and would be asked for in whispers to the male pharmacy assistant [never the female, she might not understand].
Then came HIV/AIDS, and almost overnight, children were taught all about the value of these [previously unmentionable] prophylactics, they were put on display in any retail outlet that could carry them, and the rest is history.
It's amazing what the prospect of a pandemic can do to a society.
Polygon
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