I'm Sorry for the Impotence Ads....

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 19 May 2007 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Marie]

Yesterday I saw a commercial with some boomers on bikes with "Steppenwolf" type music in the background.

Then the picture switches to a male incontinence "diaper" that offers the kind of protection you need for a long ride.

There is something about this that is just WRONG!

LOL. My husband just saw this ad for the first time last night and was horrified! LMAO!

[Mr. Silverback]

Known as “E.D.” to its friends.

E.D. Hill from Fox News must be really enthusiastic about this abbreviation coming into regular use. /sarc

[hosepipe]

A little cherry juice and gout goes bye-bye..

[Lady Jag]

The ads rot, but the jokes work for me.

[Yardstick]

Those Geico ads are crazy. I envy the guys who get paid to sit around and think that stuff up. My favorite radio spots are the Budweiser “Real Men of Genius” series.

[AmishDude]

I thought you were talking about all the people who threaten to bolt to a third party.

[uglybiker]

I find the GEICO caveman commercials offensive. It’s got a homosexual flavor about it.

It's all in how you pronounce 'GEICO'.

[HungarianGypsy]

YOU WIN! My husband says your description is about right. When he hears about women saying nothing is worse than child birth, he says gout is much worse. Having gone through child birth and seeing how he has reacted to gout I have to agree with him.

The first time he had it the cure was worse than the problem. He now relies on tea tree oil and cherries. Hasn't had a complete flare up in years.

[HungarianGypsy]

I wouldn’t buy anything from Geico just because the people I have known who had it said they were expensive.

[Ax]

After my first gout attack in 1986, I figured out that gout was God’s way of evening the playing field between men and women: I don’t think childbirth can be any more painful than gout. Thank God for indomecithin.

[N. Theknow]

Well, I’m still trying to figure out why taking Ed drugs makes couples want to relax in seperate bathtubs overlooking the Grand Canyon.

[gcruse]

As I've posted before, to get an idea of the grip baby boomers (I'm a during-the-war baby, so pre-boom) have on the culture, imagine the 1967 NFL Championship game featuring halftime entertainment from the Clicquot Club Eskimos.



That's the equivalent of having the Rolling Stones, a popular band from forty years previous, playing at a Super Bowl in 2005.   We're still rocking to baby boomer stuff that is as old to us as the Clicquot Club Eskimos were to the sixties.

[kenth]

It’s not necessarily an older person’s problem. I’ve had it a few times starting from my twenties. I thought nothing could be worse than gout pain, where even the slight movement of air around your foot, or other affected joint, was unbearable.

I recently sprained my SI joint; that’s the first pain I’ve ever felt that put gout to shame. It was only what I can describe as “white out” pain, where trying to stand brought such a level of pain that everything just whited out for a second.

[dighton]

It was only a month ago that I found out that gout is not an ancient disease that was wiped out shortly after Ben Franklin died. It’s a modern disease, with about the pain level of dropping a one gallon can of paint on your toes. Repeatedly. On both feet.

The Gout, by James Gillray.

[Petronski]

Very well done. I like this one a lot. Thanks for the chuckles.

[Tamar1973]

Having gone through child birth and seeing how he has reacted to gout I have to agree with him.

Not to dismiss the pain of gout but I've heard that women have a higher tolerance for pain than men. That's why many men act like such babies when they have a cold.

[Eaker]

Peer reviewed research link requested.

Many men bitch when they have a cold.

Many women bitch all of the time.

[Mister Da]

“Born to Wet & Wild”

Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for a diaper
in a store on the way.

Please pardon my momentary lapse into Blasphemy!

[DPMD]

E.D.? I thought it was R.D. You know, reptile dysfunction.

[fso301]

Do you feel fresh?