"Viva Viagra"....A Metaphor?

So I avoided seeing or hearing "the speech" last night, but did not avoid educating myself on the finer points.  And I read, as I often do, the IGTNT diary last evening.  So it was, in spite of myself, that I called my misrepresentative’s office. Raised blood pressure being the result, I got on the old treadmill to work off my ..what should we call it nowadays...fury? I listened to the radio, the local "progressive" Clear Channel station that gives us "the most trusted name in news" every hour on the hour. And it was the hour, so what do I hear after nothing but war talk?  

more........

"Are you doing the E.D. two step?" No, I usually say to myself, I’m walking on the treadmill and I’m female. And then I reach for the off button.  
"Even if it happens occasionally it could be E.D.!!!" How odd, I thought, I had mentioned to the young man in D.C. this morning that this machismo stuff was disgusting.
"Not something to sing about". No, I’d agree with that.
Then the disclaimers:
"Could cause vision problems."  Yes, I read in one of their ads that it could give everything a blue tint. Hmmmm.
My favorite is (and I know everyone always gets a big kick out of it:-),  "an erection lasting more than 4 hours". Yes, that is a problem. So is one that lasts 7 years or is it 6 or 5?? I don’t know when we swallowed that damn pill. And anyway it’s been stuck in my throat since 2000.

Anyway, "always use protection to prevent STD's" ...well I know that there is some disease involved..

And you’ll be singing "Viva Viagra"!!!

Well I’m not.

•  tips for singing a happy tune?

  by peagreen on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:05:56 PM PDT

  •  That was sweet!

    hilarious.

    "Are you doing the E.D. two step?" No, I usually say to myself, I’m walking on the treadmill and I’m female. And then I reach for the off button.  

    Awesome.

    by JessicaDrewSW on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:22:21 PM PDT

•  OMG !

  There it is ! On the stream of AirAmerica, right now ! For real !

  by murphy on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:14:04 PM PDT

  •  just too much ain't it n/t

    by peagreen on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:21:45 PM PDT

  •  This particular ad is very disruptive

    I'll switch it off every commercial break from the airamerica stream and then I'll often miss a lot of the actual radio show.  It's like they're trying to induce psychosomatic ED.  

    by Mindfuless on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 01:09:06 PM PDT

•  "lasting more than four hours..."

  You know, I've always wondered if that language was really there as a warning, or if they just threw that in to boost sales.  

  My idea is to add additional language: "warning - if you experience an erection measuring longer than nine inches, please contact your physician immediately."  Sales would probably double overnight.

  by Bill W on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:29:44 PM PDT

  •  I have always thought that the

    ad should be: IF you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, please contact Playgirl for a photo shoot.....

    by left my heart on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 02:07:38 PM PDT

    •  too true lol! n/t

      by peagreen on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 02:10:10 PM PDT

•  An erection lasting more than four hours?

  What's so unusual about that?

  by Dartagnan on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:36:14 PM PDT

•  Four hours is mercifully short

  compared to one thats lasted 6.5 years and been used to rape the world. So why can't as they say somebody give the psycho a blow job and maybe then it would deflate.

  by shaharazade on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:43:42 PM PDT

  •  kinda my line o' thinkin' n/t

    by peagreen on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 01:05:07 PM PDT

•  Personally

  I have just as much hate for the ads about "feminine dryness" as I do for Viagra, et al.  There are just some things I don't want to hear on TV or radio.  I can't ever have my students listen to the news because of the commercials.

  by luckylizard on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 02:19:38 PM PDT

  •  very true

    of course the juxtaposition of this with the war talk was just more than tooooooo much this morning. I find the older I get the more all those ads annoy me. I keep a hand on the button a lot. I find I have a new sense of passing minutes. It's like a mental game to see if I get it on the money when I turn the radio back on.  

    by peagreen on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 03:27:54 PM PDT

    •  I have gotten really good

      at turning off in my head.  I call it "mini-vacations."  Saves a lot of reaching for the buttons....

      by luckylizard on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 05:10:00 PM PDT

  •  I've only ever heard ONE of those

    ONE time. The damned Viagra and Cialis ads are on incessantly.

    I'm sick and tired of broke dick ads !

    I am sick and tired of ads for any and ALL Rx medications. Period.

    These ads should not exist. They used to be illegal, and that is one limitation of speech that really needs to exist.

    by murphy on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 10:45:27 PM PDT