BRIEFLY

Mexico—a country so conservative that tampons are considered taboo and biology textbooks that explain anatomy cannot be found in most high schools—recently shat itself when large, cartoonish condoms walked around the streets of downtown Guanajuato passing out free samples of themselves.

Hordes of small children, not realizing what the friendly, smiling characters actually represented, demanded the same shiny packages that the adults were being given. The condom characters usually complied.

Behold the hilarity:

Also, here's an anti-smoking advertisement innocently shaped like a camel. The caption on the base says, "Smoking is a cause of cancer."