The Green Man as icon is, of course, green. The Green Man as blog author has a skin colour that reflects his ancestoral links to northern Scotland, that is, white. One of lifes little injustices is that colourful clothes do not go well with such a pallid complexion. Sadly they just look inappropriate and pathetic. On a dark skin however they look great. Any wonder that Africans like such colourful attire, it looks so good on them. This propesity for colour is now being utilised by South Africa to address it's raising AIDS crisis, they releasing new colourful condoms.

This is the brain child of South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. She says

We realised that we needed to change the way we market government condoms to maximise their impact. Condoms should not only be a necessity but should be seen as sexy and part of fun.

This is much better than her last approach which was to advocate a diet of beetroot, spinach, garlic and olive oil.