Make a Baby, Win World Cup Tickets, Pope Not Eligible

Now we know where all those World Cup tickets have gone and why German contraceptive sales have fallen over the past nine months. In a contest designed to help fight Germany’s low birth rate and as an answer to sold out World Cup venues, German late-night comedian Harold Schmidt offered up free tickets to couples who gave birth before the opening kickoff on June 9th. Last month he handed out 216 tickets to the lucky winners.

“It was the only way I could get my husband to agree (to having a baby),” commented winning mom Frau Lehmann-Stein.

While Germany is encouraging sex, neighboring Poland is trying to erase all signs that the act even exists ahead of the Pope’s visit.

Teams of Catholic journalists have been assigned to make sure that Poland’s state-run television doesn’t show anything naughty when the Pope is in the country later this month. This includes an ad for the World Cup where a man and a woman are having sexual intercourse. The Pope might not want to see this one, but we sure would. We’re praying someone will post it on YouTube soon.

This does raise the question: how much time do you think the Pope actually spends watching television?

We’d be curious to hear what he has to say about the outrageous decision to leave German…no, make that World…hero David Hasselhoff out of the cast for the upcoming Knight Rider television movie. First the World Cup gala is cancelled and now this. It just hasn’t been the Hoff’s year.