# I don't get Cecil's Julio Iglesias joke **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 6, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483 "2013-02-06T14:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/1 "2013-02-06T14:16:18Z")
In [this column on the flat tax](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1118/do-the-rich-pay-very-little-tax), Cecil says that “the flat tax is like a date with Julio Iglesias. It takes you a while to realize you’ve been screwed.” I don’t get it. I’ve scanned the Wikipedia page on Julio, and nothing there enlightened me. So … can anyone explain Cecil’s joke to me? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/2 "2013-02-06T14:53:18Z")
My guess is that it’s a reference to Iglesias’s biggest hit, “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” a song you just could not get away from in the mid-1980s, in which he basically is saying “I have slept with a lot of women and then shown them the door. Boo-ya!” ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/3 "2013-02-06T15:48:03Z")
That sounds like a plausible explanation. I guess I missed the joke because I somehow missed hearing that omnipresent song of the 80s (which is the decade that I stopped listening to the radio, so that probably explains that). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/4 "2013-02-06T15:51:48Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > I guess I missed the joke because I somehow missed hearing that omnipresent song of the 80s… I think you can be forgiven. After all, the 80s only lasted about…10 years or so, although it sure seemed longer at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/5 "2013-02-06T15:54:09Z")
I think the idea is that Iglesias was so slick with his moves, he could be “in and out” (as it were) before she ever noticed anything was happening. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/6 "2013-02-06T16:03:01Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > “It takes you a while to realize you’ve been screwed.” And by coincidence he’s a lawyer. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/7 "2013-02-06T16:15:31Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I think the idea is that Iglesias was so slick with his moves, he could be “in and out” (as it were) before she ever noticed anything was happening. This is my take on it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/8 "2013-02-06T16:21:59Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I think the idea is that Iglesias was so slick with his moves, he could be “in and out” (as it were) before she ever noticed anything was happening. Exactly what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/9 "2013-02-06T16:36:39Z")
So, ol’ Julio suffers from premature ejaculation? Why wasn’t that mentioned on his Wikipedia page??!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/10 "2013-02-06T17:10:00Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I think the idea is that Iglesias was so slick with his moves, he could be “in and out” (as it were) before she ever noticed anything was happening. Was he actually known for this? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/11 "2013-02-06T21:06:36Z")
I guess the reputation comes with, or from, the songs. I too figured that the implication was that Iglesias was a fast worker. A little like the old Speedy Gonzales joke. (A married guy, worried by reports that Speedy was in town, decided to spend all night with his hand shielding his wife’s honor, so to speak. In the wee small hours he quickly swatted a fly away from his nose and instantly replaced his hand. An indignant voice came from the darkness. “Senor! Please take your hand off my ass!”) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/12 "2013-02-17T14:46:16Z")
Between Isabel and Miranda, Julio Iglesias went through women as if they were candy, but find me one who complained about it. Even the one who sued for paternity many years after the fact doesn’t talk badly about him. He’s certainly fast in the seduction parts; I doubt he is so in the sex parts - and for a long time, he was the modern epitome of the latin lover (for many guys, he still is, although they think that “Miranda has tamed him, a pity”). Dude had a reputation for the ability to be in before you even realized you were thinking “hey, he’s not so bad-looking once you get over the old-leather face…”; the reputation doesn’t say anything about out. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-cecils-julio-iglesias-joke/649483/13 "2013-03-22T02:52:05Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I think the idea is that Iglesias was so slick with his moves, he could be “in and out” (as it were) before she ever noticed anything was happening. In Like Flynn, in case anyone else was reminded of the phrase. Which apparently in strict etymology [does not apply.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_like_Flynn)