Hugo Chavez Creates the "Penis Phone"

No. I don't make this stuff up. With the people running other people's lives in this world today, I don't have to.

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has launched the Vergatorio, one of the world's cheapest mobile phones and probably the only one with a rude name.

Costing $15 (about £10), and rivalled for price only by the very cheapest phones on sale in Asia, the Vergatorio's name has its origins in a venezuelan slang term for penis.

Mr Chavez, who nationalised the company that has produced the phone, unveiled the product, only to be condemned for the choice of name. Said Chavez:

"It is science and technology at the service of the people not the elites ... the day will arrive when we manufacture phones for Cuba and Latin America," he said.

"This telephone will be the biggest seller not only in Venezuela but the world. Whoever doesn't have a Vergatario is nothing."

He even telephoned his mother during the launch ceremony.

Imagine. He can call Obama with that phone. He can use his dick to call a dick.