Bill Gates unwittingly stars in condom ad

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As his co-starring role in the Microsoft videos showed, Bill Gates doesn’t mind being in the occasional ad. But he might be surprised to see his likeness—or more accurately, a penis dressed up to look like him—in this graphic, bizarre, NSFW condom campaign from Belgium. "I finally discovered an efficient antivirus!!" says copy on the Gates ad. Another penis is dressed up like John Lennon, who isn’t around to complain. A third is perhaps supposed to be Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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