You Know This Guy, But Have You Seen Him? Enzyte's Smiling Bob Is Missing...

This May Be the Weirdest Post I've Ever Written...

Researching information for a blog can lead you down a strange road sometimes.... Here is a prime example. If you've read the blog, you know I occassionally have a post called 'Do you know this person', where I show an ordinary picture of a D-List celebrity. I've had 'Flo' from the Progressive commercials, and the kid who was naked in the pool from the Nirvana album.

Well, I saw another one of those Enzyte commercials, with Smilin' Bob, the happy guy with the permanent erection. It took a little while, but I found out Bob's real name: John Larson. Not the Congressman - although most of them do walk around all day in a daze with a hard-on, right? Great, I got a name, now I needed a regular picture. No such luck, but did I run into something else.

Larson has been missing and presumed dead since June 12, after a boating accident near the Caribbean island of Martinique. Strange...... I haven't found anything that indicates if he ever was found, so I assume he is dead. It is just another odd twist in the story of Enzyte.

Not that it involves Larson, but Enzyte's founder was convicted of a slew of fraud and other charges about a year or two ago. From most reports, Enzyte is a total fraud, but they do still sell about $100 million a year of the little blue pill. What does involve Larson is that Enzyte's brain trust was seriously considering changing Enzyte's name and - GASP !!!! - replacing Smiling Bob. This was from a USA Today article about two weeks before Larson's accident. Seems pretty odd that Larson's job is on the chopping block, then he suddenly disappears.....And now, those Enzyte commercials all over the TV again, smilin' Bob and all. A bit creepy that they're using him still, even though he's dead - or is he? Is this the truth - or the scam of the Century???

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