A while ago my brother Mokie was at a bar to see a friend’s band, and while in the bathroom he noticed this:
I’m pretty sure that Glen Burnie is one of the last places in Maryland that still provides condom machines. Which is ironic because you can’t swing an abandoned baby by its umbilical cord around here without hitting a pregnant teenager who’s smoking and drinking a beer out of a paper-bag. You may recall that I found a condom machine in The Wharf Rat at the last blogger happy hour. But that machine just dispensed condoms. Sure, one of the condoms was a French Tickler, but it was just condoms. You have to come to Glen Burnie to find a condom machine that also dispenses “novelties”.
It was only a year ago that I got this “Rubber Check” novelty from a dingy bar in the Dirty Burnie, and at this point, you may see a pattern developing. Apparently my brother and I have a penchant for finding out what type of horrible crap we can get to fall out of the condom machines. In this most recent case, it was “Porn O’ Plenty”.
Can you imagine if some poor Irish bastard was actually named Porn O’ Plenty? He would be the greatest Irish porn star after Colin Farrel. The name is just so meta. He could be in a movie called Porn O’ Plenty, about himself, Porn O’ Plenty, and what would the movie feature? Well Porn O’ Plenty of course, and by that I mean a veritable human mountain of slithering, sweaty copulation. It’s so meta!
Anyway, you can tell the porn is going to be fresh because it was packaged in 1981. That means that the woman on the cover has probably already had the “I was young and needed the drugs” talk with her children. Starlets can’t live on booze alone. They need coke to get that glazed-over, dead-eyed look that the men love. Also, what the hell is a “Federal Pharmacal”? It’s not quite a pharmacy, and it’s not quite a pharmaceutical, but it’s federal, so you’ll probably wake up with an aching orifice and a case of the clap.
The whole thing then unfolds to reveal a little pink piece of paper. Little pink pieces of paper typically don’t provide the proper medium for portraying pornography, so you’ve got to wonder at this point what the hell is actually inside this so-called Porn O’ Plenty.
Oh, hooray! It’s a horrible chain letter! If you can’t read the letter, I’ll reproduce it for you here:
-CHAIN LETTER-
Dear Friend,
This chain letter started with the hope of bringing relief and happiness to all tired husbands.
Unlike most chain letters, this does not cost money.
Simply send a copy of this letter to six of your married friends who are equally tired.
Then bundle up your wife and send her to the man on the top of the list and add your name to the bottom of the list.
When your name comes to the top of the list you will receive 16,487 women and some dandies.
Have faith in the letter- ONE MAN BROKE THE CHAIN AND GOT HIS OLD LADY BACK.
Don’t let this happen to you!
Sincerely,
A GOOD FRIENDP.S. At this time of writing, a friend of mine had received 356 women. They buried him yesterday and it took seven undertakers 36 hours to get the smile off his face. AGAIN, I SAY, HAVE FAITH.
Ignoring the misogyny inherent in suggesting that women and wives can be treated as a commodity that can be shared and traded without any regard to their health or well-being for the benefit of some lecherous old man’s dream of booting his wife and getting a nubile young bride with all the perkiness of a candy-striper sent to satisfy his lascivious and salacious urges, this is still one of the unfunniest things I have ever read. Off the top of my head I can think of about a dozen things that would be funnier than that chain-letter, the stupidest of which would just be the word “BONER” printed in all caps with an exclamation point and no explanation whatsoever to the poor sap who bought the thing.
I just can’t wrap my mind around how stupidly bad it is, and on top of it, I have no idea what they’re talking about when they say “and some dandies”. Do they mean that some of the women will be quite good looking, suggesting that the bulk of women would be horrible old hags? If that’s the case, then why the smiling dead guy? By dandies do they mean gay men? I just can’t figure it out, and it hurts my brain that something so utterly devoid of humorous content would be able to dominate as much of my time as it already has.





