AP headline: "Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects"

[KlondikeGeoff]

But it must be a tough thing to swallow a watermelon, especially while she’s waiting.

[Leaffan]

Well, where’s the link? And pass the watermelon please.

[descamisado]

So there is something to the virile, oversexed black man rumor.

[Leaper]

@KlondikeGeoff

But it must be a tough thing to swallow a watermelon, especially while she’s waiting.

“Then good news! It’s a suppository!”

[Mindfield]

Nice melons can get you randy?

Tell me something I don’t know.

[Mama_Zappa]

That would explain a lot about this story.

[Chimera]

I saw that story and immediately thought;

“What good does it do if you spend the whole time pissing?”

[Sage_Rat]

@Mama Zappa

That would explain a lot about this story.

I suspect that the Mythbusters wouldn’t do an episode on that story, but I’m quite tempted to forward it to them…

[carnivorousplant]

@Chimera

I saw that story and immediately thought;

“What good does it do if you spend the whole time pissing?”

@CNN

“The problem you have when you eat a lot of watermelon is you tend to run to the bathroom more,” Perkins-Veazie said.

From the CNN link.

[neutron_star]

@Mama Zappa

That would explain a lot about this story.

Holy shit. I missed that one the first time around. Happy 5th anniversary, crazy watermelon fucking thread!

[ralph124c]

Did somebody get a research grant to study this nonsense?

[WarmNPrickly]

There may be a research grant to increase citrulline concentrations in various vegetables. Would that be such a bad thing given how beneficial it is?

Viagra wasn’t being researched as a cure for erectile dysfunction, it was being researched as a blood pressure therapy. It just happens that the two effects are interconnected and it was found that Viagra was really good for ED and only moderate for BP.