Monday, November 20, 2006

Pinto Alegre! Pinto Alegre!!

have you heard about the mayor of a brazilian town who initiated a program to hand out free viagra to men over 60? he calls the program "pinto alegre" (portuguese for "happy penis"). brilliant, no?

what seems like a perfect plan turned out to be a bit cock-eyed (ahem). the happy penises were actually happy wandering penises. infidelity rates were off the charts - there were a lot of happy husbands but it seems their happiness had nothing to do with their wives. so the mayor decided to revise the program. now he distributes the viagra to the men's wives so the shimmy shammy stays at home. i call this program "somewhat happy, yet controlled penis."

oh those crazy brazilians...

5 comments:

kara said...

Did you also know that in Brazil, it is illegal to be arrested four days before an election? So you could kill a man, eat his eyeballs, sell his organs on the black market, expose yourself in public, rape an animal, park without paying for it, drive a golf cart drunk, burgal the president, AND dine and dash and NOT be arrested...as long as there's an election in 4 days. How brilliant are they NOW?

The Dog of Freetown said...

Yes, that was a crazy weekend in Rio wasn't it Kara. Never again, I vow.

There was also some South American mayor who managed to convince the girlfriends of gangsters to deny their men sex untill they relinquished their firearms to police. And it worked apparently.

Thérèse said...

I heard about that, Kieran! It did, completely work. It wasn't just the girlfriends; it was every woman. Deny your men sex until they relinquish firearms. What a great idea.

Now imagine if they tried that in the USA, to convince the president to let the troops go home. Sex strike. Ha! It would totally work.

d said...

k2 - that's awesome! except driving the golf cart drunk... nobody should ever condone that. a law like that would make election time much less annoying, because you could take out all of your frustrations through crime. and research shows that criminals have the lowest amounts of stress.

k - ok... i'm starting to see a pattern here. it's like "let's come up with a brazillian or south american story that's better than d's." i'll have you know, this blog is not about outshining me. it's about telling me how awesome i am and occassionally entertaining me when i've got nothing to say. what kind of gangsters could they have been to give up that easily...

t - oh i give up. all hail the other two stories. they are far superior to mine. a sex strike is only a temporary fix. let's find a solution to the bigger problem.

happy penis! it's funny! ah crap. hey, what a great story about south america. i'm so glad nobody else thought about telling a story about a crazy brazillian town or south american government first.

Anonymous said...

There are charts of infidelity rates?