# Barry Manilow walks into wall with an erection and breaks nose

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 4, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567 "2003-06-04T12:41:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567/1 "2003-06-04T12:41:48Z")

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[http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/04/manilow.ailing.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/04/manilow.ailing.reut/index.html)

Okay, it doesn’t explicitly say he had an erection, but you know that’s what happened.

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**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567/2 "2003-06-04T12:50:04Z")

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I’ve always said that morning wood was a bad thing.

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**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567/3 "2003-06-04T12:50:07Z")

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Well, of course. He got up to wizz in the middle of the night, and like most guys, had that pee-pee hard-on.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567/4 "2003-06-04T12:53:20Z")

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His nose swelled… how could they tell?

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**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567/5 "2003-06-04T16:18:23Z")

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I’m just trying to picture what he would look like with a swollen nose.

On second thought, never mind, my mental imaging capacity doesn’t scale up that high.

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**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-manilow-walks-into-wall-with-an-erection-and-breaks-nose/179567/6 "2003-06-05T00:38:23Z")

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I heard he smacked his face into the headboard while the pool-boy was putting the “man” in “Manilow”…if you know what I mean.