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Impotence-cure advert in Iran angers hard-liners
Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^ | July 15 2002

Posted on 07/15/2002 2:09:48 PM PDT by knighthawk

An advertisement for a "miracle" impotence cure depicting a man vying to raise the Tower of Pisa has left hard-liners in Tehran raging after it ran in the main official daily Iran over the weekend.

"The publication of this advertisement and especially the drawing are immoral acts", the arch-conservative Jomhouri-Eslami newspaper strongly complained on Sunday.

The paper asked how Iran, which is run by the official IRNA news agency, "dares to publish this depraved and immoral advertisement that is an attack on all modesty."

Saturday's ad by a health-ministry-approved drugs company claimed to offer a "miracle" treatment for impotence with a "98 percent success rate." The treatment was by a "brand new method" using a machine, it said without providing further detail.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: advert; hardliners; impotencecure; iran; stiffnecked
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To: Aliska
I now know the significance of the two stones Galileo dropped from there.
21 posted on 07/15/2002 2:44:31 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek
:-). He needed to make an erection correction.
22 posted on 07/15/2002 2:46:00 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: mc5cents
I swear that's not mine, baby.
23 posted on 07/15/2002 2:46:55 PM PDT by Dakmar
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To: knighthawk
They would really go nuts over in Iran if they had broadcast the infomercial for Extenze. This infomercial stars Ron "Hedgehog" Jeremy and Kim Chambers. Adding to the bizarreness of this infomercial is the appearance of the husband of Kim Chambers, Scott Stiles, also a porn star, who is billed as having a physics degree and being a rocket scientist prior to entering porn.
24 posted on 07/15/2002 2:47:53 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
LOL! I woke up to that ad in the middle of the night when I left the TV on!
25 posted on 07/15/2002 2:50:29 PM PDT by cmsgop
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To: knighthawk
We'd hear complaints if that were published in a U.S. paper, too.
26 posted on 07/15/2002 2:50:41 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: krb
If this were representing Clinton, you'd have to take the photo from the other side, and put a "kink" in it at about the third story.
27 posted on 07/15/2002 2:51:28 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: Illbay
Yes, there were several kinks in that story until the truth came out.
28 posted on 07/15/2002 2:53:43 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska
Did it COME out, or did it sort of pop out unexpectedly?
29 posted on 07/15/2002 2:57:01 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: knighthawk
The treatment was by a "brand new method" using a machine, it said without providing further detail.

"Hey, it'sa Senor Drill again - c'mon, Luigi, we gonna need a crane...naw, Luigi, not'a the big one, a little one. A reeeeal little one..."

30 posted on 07/15/2002 2:58:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Illbay
It kinda leaked out.
31 posted on 07/15/2002 2:59:51 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: knighthawk
After denouncing the ad, government hard-liners wanted to know how to order the drug...
32 posted on 07/15/2002 3:02:17 PM PDT by PsyOp
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To: Senator Pardek
They don't want the competion?

Of course, what else ;-D

33 posted on 07/15/2002 3:25:34 PM PDT by BMCDA
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To: cmsgop
Everybody in that Infomercial (including the owner of Extenze) is so sleazy that it is a wonder that they even get any sales. Good comedy relief from the Hedgehog however.
34 posted on 07/15/2002 3:26:04 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix; Constitution Day; maxwell; hobbes1; CholeraJoe; one_particular_harbour; Ron Jeremy
Good comedy relief from the Hedgehog however.

Ping

35 posted on 07/15/2002 3:29:18 PM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: PJ-Comix
I met Ron a couple of times, he was a very nice guy. That infomercial was a crack up though..
36 posted on 07/15/2002 3:34:12 PM PDT by cmsgop
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To: cmsgop
I met Ron a couple of times, he was a very nice guy. That infomercial was a crack up though..

Is there anybody out there stupid enough to buy Extenze?

37 posted on 07/15/2002 3:39:07 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: knighthawk
The paper asked how Iran, which is run by the official IRNA news agency, "dares to publish this depraved and immoral advertisement that is an attack on all modesty."

Let's see now...the same fine mo-slimes who like to gang rape Australian and Dutch girls speak of modesty. Riiiight.

38 posted on 07/15/2002 4:07:40 PM PDT by neutrino
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To: bourbon
Now don't be so tough on the Mullahs....Deep down they're just a bunch of old softies.
39 posted on 07/15/2002 4:11:14 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: bourbon
Well, they are impotentates. The mullahs think theyse impotent. If youse impotent, ya gota look impotent. That's why they wear the diapers on the wrong end.
40 posted on 07/15/2002 5:41:58 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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