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Mao Condoms

Celebrities and condoms seem to go together, from Bill and Monica to the Olympic fuwa. So when I first saw a tweet about condoms bearing a likeness to Osama Bin Laden, Mao Zedong and Adolf Hitler I didn’t think it was anything worth blogging about.... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Thu, Apr 16 2009

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