# First thing that comes to mind hearing "Three men in a tub" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 7, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031 "2012-02-07T00:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/21 "2012-02-07T06:29:52Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Me, too. Rub a dub dub Ninthed. Or is it tenthed? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/22 "2012-02-07T06:36:25Z")
Three Men and a Baby ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/23 "2012-02-07T07:28:19Z")
How unhygienic! ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/24 "2012-02-07T07:50:52Z")
This: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iCJ7MVJckkM/hqdefault.jpg "HANK THOMPSON - Rub-a-Dub-Dub") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCJ7MVJckkM) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/25 "2012-02-07T13:48:05Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > That was my first thought as well. Another for that one, here. (“Three Men in a Boat,” that is) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/26 "2012-02-07T14:13:11Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > That was my first thought as well. My second. “Rub-a-dub-dub” came first, but I was thinking of Jerome K Jerome before I clicked on the link. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/27 "2012-02-07T16:30:47Z")
Actually, “Rub-a-dub-dub” and Gay Porn are not mutually exclusive. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/28 "2012-02-07T17:50:48Z")
Rub-a-dub-dub, and then an image of a picture we have of me, my sister and my brother all in the tub together (maybe 4, 3 and 1 year old). It’s 3 little kids in a tub, but it’s what I think of when I hear the nursery rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/29 "2012-02-07T17:58:45Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. > > You know, there may even be some kind of double entendre implied with this little rhyme. I have a book of nursery rhymes where this rhyme goes like this: _Rub-a-dub-dub Three men in a tub And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker Turn 'em out, knaves all three!_ Reading this as an adult, it’s really hard to shake the impression that the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker were all caught together in an, ahem, compromising situation. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/30 "2012-02-07T18:04:53Z")
other. My neighbor was installing one of those large tubs with the water jets in his house and, in describing it, he referred to it as a “two man tub.” I had to reply that it isn’t my place to judge what he did in the privacy of his own bathroom. Back-pedaling ensued. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/31 "2012-02-07T20:10:36Z")
We had [this toy](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Abk1Sxn_InE/TKkN666D3HI/AAAAAAAABZQ/XIlv0kCVcMk/s400/thrifty+003.jpg) in our house growing up, so I definitely think of the nursery rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/32 "2012-02-08T00:24:51Z")
Rub-a-dub-dub Three men in a tub The cow jumped over the moon The little dog laughed to see such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon. Or something. May have not been any cows. And if a dog was around 3 men in a tub there’s no way it’s not gonna try to jump in there with 'em. ---
**Author:** ![impatien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c89c15/32.png) [@impatien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/impatien)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/33 "2012-02-08T01:12:22Z")
Overflow ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/34 "2012-02-08T01:39:14Z")
Mother Goose. Rub-a-dub-dub. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/35 "2012-02-08T01:43:47Z")
Way beyond gay porn: gay reality in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/36 "2012-02-08T05:21:42Z")
The south park episode “Two men in a hot tub” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/37 "2012-02-08T05:47:57Z")
Nine naked men just walking down the road: (not safe for Americans at work)[A Heap of Trouble (video).](http://muchosucko.com/2082/9-naked-men) ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031/38 "2012-02-09T03:55:42Z")
I just realized that I have a pic from several years ago of three men in a tub. All people I know. All drunk. One wearing a helmet. Nothing sexual ensued, though hangovers did. The caption contest we had over it was most excellent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-hearing-three-men-in-a-tub/612031.md?page=1)