| Issue #43, February 2, 2007 |
WHEN THE VIAGRA WOULDN’T STOP WORKING
By Dan Rattiner
I don’t know if you’ve
been following this story but there is an iguana in a zoo in Belgium
that has had an erection for more than a week.
We all know how dangerous that can
be. It’s right there at the end of the Viagra commercial.
There’s this couple sitting on a swing in a garden, smiling
at each other, and the voice over says, “If an erection lasts
for more than four hours, consult your doctor.”
They’ve seen this commercial
at the Antwerp Zoo, too, and so the vets there are concerned and
have been monitoring the iguana’s
situation for all this time. Finally
they have come to the conclusion that something is going to have
to be done about it.
They are going to cut it off.
(There’s a lesson here for
Viagra users.)
They are going to cut it off to save
this poor iguana’s life.
There was a press conference. The
TV reporters asked one if the iguana is upset, or not eating well.
“It doesn’t bother
him,” he said. “He doesn’t know what amputation
means.”
Somebody else wanted to know if amputation
would end the iguana’s sex life, which if you think about
it, is a pretty dumb thing to ask, until one of the vets said no
it
would not because iguanas have two
penises.
Didn’t know that, did you?
So a female iguana walks by and one
of the penises says this is IT, and the other one says, no it isn’t.
Not my style.
So here’s the question: what
important
message does the iguana get when
they cut off his penis that was erect for a week, but leave alone
the one that wasn’t?
And what does an iguana do if one
penis says follow that girl this
way
and the other penis says follow that
girl the other way?
I don’t know the answer to
either one of these questions.
I once had an erection that lasted
twenty years. I was twelve years old when it began. But that’s
another story.
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