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Friday, October 31, 2008

East Bay Condom Smackdown

Posted By on Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:21 AM

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Every once in while, you open your inbox and there is a press release so awesome, so devoid of imperfection, it takes your breath away. Behold the missive I received from a Berkeley-based condom manufacturer:

We are Mayer Laboratories-makers of Kimono condoms. This past February we released the thinnest condom in the U.S--Kimono MicroThin...Recently, however, the largest condom manufacturer in the world, SLL Americas (Durex Condoms) released a condom that they claimed to be the thinnest in the world. Mayer Labs immediately tested random lots of the Durex SensiThin (using the methods they described) only to realize that it was not only not the thinnest condom in the world, but not thinner than Kimono MicroThin either!

Such tomfoolery! Anyway, Kimono says that a stern letter was sent to SLL Americas and they will be removing the claim from their boxes. But just in case you don't quite get it, above is the helpful info-graphic that accompanied the press release.

Also, you know what is fun? Chatting with your coworker when you've got, like, five condom Web sites open in your browser. It was for work! --Andy Wright

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