# 6-year-old traumatized by Barney the dinosaur's penis **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467 "2006-08-27T23:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/81 "2006-08-30T04:26:58Z")
And the punchline is: “No, Daddy, that’s a penis. A cock is twelve inches long and purple.” ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/82 "2006-08-30T04:39:12Z")
Eh, I’m betting that the letter writer is the real prankster hoodlum here. 🙂 The letter is a little TOO over the top for me to believe that he’s serious, with the references to how it has “shaken the bedrock of our family” and has permanently altered the daughter’s future. Yes there are people out there who have wacky hang ups about sex, but nowadays I think that it’s more likely to be someone trying to parody that sort of person than a legitimate gripe. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/83 "2006-08-30T06:15:04Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] And the punchline is: “No, Daddy, that’s a penis. A cock is twelve inches long and purple.” [/QUOTE] Now I’m reminded of the joke where the father throws out his daughters one by one, when he exposes himself to them one by one and asks them “What is this ?” When they say “A penis” he throws them out for knowing what one is. The last and youngest says “I don’t know.” He butttons up and say “That, my dear, is a penis.” The girl laughs at him and sneers “You call **that** a penis ?!” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/84 "2006-08-30T06:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=jimbeam] They knew what was what from an early age. No trauma ensued. [/QUOTE] But what about penis? Did that ensue? > [@eleanorigby](#): > > I would be so tempted to just go up to this man and start shouting “penis, penis, penis!” just to watch him blench and cringe. Great, I thought it was bad when I got _Ode de Joy_ with “movies, movies, movies” stuck in my head. Now, I’ve got it with “penis, penis, penis” stuck in my head. [Daffy Duck] I don’t like you. [/DD] ---
**Author:** ![parrot\_recipes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@parrot\_recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parrot_recipes)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/85 "2006-08-30T06:48:41Z")
I Love this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/86 "2006-08-30T06:56:53Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] \*I love you, you love me, Barney showed me his pee-pee…\* :eek: 😛 😃 [/QUOTE] Dude! Wow! 50 points! > [@Der Trihs](#): > > In case you’re curious, dino and reptile furry fans are sometimes called “scaleys”. And to think, I was going to say that, but I would have been thinking it was just a joke. I would ask how you know, but that might lead to me learning horrific things. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/87 "2006-08-30T14:31:08Z")
[QUOTE=Excalibre] I would ask how you know, but that might lead to me learning horrific things. [/QUOTE] You do not want to know about the scabbeys. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/88 "2006-08-30T15:06:02Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] [http://www.thevillagenews.com/opinion.asp](http://www.thevillagenews.com/opinion.asp) Something about these don’t seem quite right- is this a very subtle parody site? [/QUOTE] Too complete and sophisticated to be a parody site. The links go to actual stories, and if you google some of the stories, you’ll find similar accounts of the same events iby other area news outlets. Fallbrook Village News is listed as a weekly member of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the CNPA link takes you to the site where the p_ **s letter is plublished. So no, it’s not a parody site. But the Village News may have been had. Most papers require phone confirmation before they publish a letter, and if there’s any doubt about the veracity of the letter, a little deeper checking is sometimes done. Assuming the News did vet the letter before publishing it – yep, the guy’s just ga-ga over the word p** _s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467.md?page=4)