Two small lanterns suspended from low hooks, one glowing amber and one dark blue

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The Road to Mars

Eric Idle

Men have two major organs, the brain and the penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker offers a crude joke that men have two major organs, the brain and the penis, but too little blood to power both together. It is a sexual jibe at male priorities, suggesting that when one is active the other is starved, so reason gives way to lust.

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