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The Tiger Woods condom statue will unite the world

Mar 31, 2010, 6:30 PM EDT

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As you might imagine, I get several emails each day asking, “Hey, why no likenesses of Tiger Woods made entirely of condoms?” Today I put that complaint to rest. We had to travel to far-off Bangkok (shut up, Beavis), to find one, but here you go. The creation, on display at the Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant, is adorned with a belt buckle that reads “Let’s do it Tiger,” and of course is next to a condom-decorated Christmas tree. You’re welcome, everyone. Oh, but there’s more.

Tiger, the Christmas tree, Santa Claus and condom cutouts where you put your head for a photo are part of a safe sex and birth control program sponsored by the Population and Community Development Association of Thailand.

The campaign is serious–and explicit. The light-hearted approach is a way to counteract embarrassment among conservative Thais. They like things to be “sanuk,” or fun and pleasant.

The restaurant is as serious as the campaign. The food is good, and the signature dish is what else but yam tung yang, or condom salad.

The restaurant isn’t an “adults only” place that invites self-conscious snickers, although it does make this promise: “Our food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy.” Families with young children eat there along with tourists from all over and Bangkok residents.

One thing doesn’t change: after lunch or dinner, customers are given wrapped condoms instead of hot towels or chocolate mints.

Unique, but I found them kind if tasteless and chewy.
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  1. Ironic - Mar 31, 2010 at 9:08 PM

    Ironic considering he is reported to never use one. Even Elin is reportedly preggers again. That “largest-penis-I-have-ever-seen” (quote from one of the whores) thing gets around.

  2. Karen - Mar 31, 2010 at 9:34 PM

    Or, the quote I like to use: “But, where has it been?”

  3. Karen - Mar 31, 2010 at 9:35 PM

    Or, as I like to say: “Where has it been?”

  4. Ironic - Mar 31, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    Where HASN’T it been?
    You know what Tiger Woods calls Jesse James? “An amateur.”

  5. BC - Apr 1, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    Well, didn’t Tiger’s dad say he’d be bigger than Ghandhi? Unsure if measurements were kept in 1950-ish India but in terms of pure scoring factor and condom use I’d say he’s ahead of the revered leadrleader.

  6. ahem - Apr 1, 2010 at 1:05 AM

    I guess you had to be there.

  7. cw - Apr 1, 2010 at 2:06 AM

    My biggest problem with this “statue”? The Swoosh is backward.

  8. kevin - Apr 1, 2010 at 7:24 AM

    Lets hope he doesn’t get a hole in one.

  9. BC - Apr 1, 2010 at 8:48 AM

    Is the backward Nike swoosh the international sign for help, like flying the American flag upside down? Phil Knight ain’t going to like this….

  10. Tiger_aint_got_nothin_on_Wilt_the_Stilt - Apr 1, 2010 at 8:53 AM

    the picture is reversed….driver is backward too…

  11. Barbara Shafer - Apr 1, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    This is April Fool’s Day, folks!!!!

  12. Arcadian - Apr 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM

    You know Nike woould SUE if the swoosh was legit COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!!
    Good at least the Chinese arent afraid.

  13. Yakima, WA - Apr 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM

    April Fool’s or not, very entertaining newsstory. This restaurant wouldn’t be good for someone with a latex allergy.

  14. BC - Apr 1, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    Photo is not reversed – look at the writing on the belt buckle.

  15. Sheik Ya Booti - Apr 1, 2010 at 10:07 AM

    It is somewhat ironic that the men who laid down the “rules” for marriage have molested so many children.
    As the RC Church sex scandal unfolded over the last few days, you get the sense that the church was and still is more concerned about its own image.
    Even as the Pope seemed to be at the center of some of the allegations, he was rather dismissive durng his service yesterday. He told the thousands of people gathered to hear him celebrate Mass that God would give him courage to not be intimidated “by the petty gossip of dominant opinion.”
    I wonder what the 200 deaf boys in Milwaukee [and all the other victims in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands] would say about his response.
    Their representatives on either side of the Atlantic blamed Lawyers, haters, New York Times and any anyone but the Church. The Milwaukee boys spent 30 years trying to tell their story.
    I’m sure this type of abuse happens in other religions too.
    In America if a person is charged with molesting young children, they are put on a register and most of the time find it very difficult to live a normal life again – in no small part because of the harsh treatment they receive from religious neighbors, even after they have served long sentences.
    To focus on Tiger’s “infidelity” should only serve as an example of our misplaced priorites.

  16. davefoles - Apr 1, 2010 at 10:22 AM

    And yet the writing on the belt buckle isn’t reversed. The reversed Nike Swoosh is probably an attempt to get around trademarks.

  17. sacramento - Apr 1, 2010 at 10:28 AM

    michael jordan warns to keep away from a certain whore. look who’s calling someone a whore. i suppose jordan and woods are just regular all american guys, whereas the the women they hunt and buy for sex are whores. jason whitlock the sports writer is among the first to call a shovel a shovel. he calls woods ” golf’s greatest pimp.” i’ll bet as soon as the sports media begins calling the woods and jordans what they really are, some of the idolizing of them might die down.

  18. JP - Apr 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM

    What Chinese are you talking about? This is in Thailand, not China.

  19. Jim Guida - Apr 1, 2010 at 10:52 AM

    Someone scrawled a notice next to the condom machine in the mens’ room: “Save your money. Worst gum ever”

  20. rrobeson - Apr 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM

    After all, what golfer can resist a ‘hole-in-one’?

  21. Mike - Apr 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM

    The picture ins’t backwards. The text on the belt reads the correct way. The swoosh may have been intentionally done that way to avoid copyright infringement, as another reader notes.

  22. JPM - Apr 1, 2010 at 12:47 PM

    This statue is a travesty… Tiger would never wear orange pants with his signature sunday red shirt!

  23. Len - Apr 1, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    Maybe it is Ricky Martin

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