Gift idea: Chinese Olympic condoms
China to auction Olympics condoms
When the Olympics hosted by Beijing ended, a collector snapped up the 5,000 condoms left over from the 100,000 distributed free to athletes.
The collection has now been put up for a one-off auction, with a starting price of one yuan ($0.15; £0.08) each.
Each condom wrapper carries the motto of the Beijing Games – faster, higher, stronger – in English and Chinese. </em>
Back in 1996 when the summer Olympics came to Atlanta, a co-worker and I wanted to market condoms with the rings on them, with the slogan “Wrap the Dream!”. Somebody told us it was in bad taste.
But a condom with “Faster! Higher! Stronger!” isn’t? Sheesh.
