# If you say Dung Beetle three times does she appear before you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811 "2015-01-14T13:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/1 "2015-01-14T13:55:12Z")
This is one of those things that make me think I’ve been a Doper for waay too long. Week one: I’m watching The Interview, one of the code names in The Interview was Dung Beetle, as soon as they said it I thought "Hey, **Dung Beetle**! (our DB). Week two: Watching Modern Family and one of the kids calls the other kid a Dung Beetle., which also made me do a double take. A couple of days after that, I’m at the grocery as I’m walking past a couple I overheard one of them say “They look like Dung Beetles…” (I have no idea what they were talking about.) Anyway, that is just too weird. How often does one hear Dung Beetle in everyday life? I think the last time I heard it was in HS biology class. (Outside of this place of course.) Yep, I spend too much time here. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/2 "2015-01-14T14:33:48Z")
Those folks are copying me. Also, I do not show up when called! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/3 "2015-01-14T14:42:54Z")
I just tried it, and it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/4 "2015-01-14T14:49:52Z")
I was just going to stop at Lucky’s first and get you a doughnut. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/5 "2015-01-14T14:56:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I just tried it, and it didn’t work. You have to say it while looking in a mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/6 "2015-01-14T15:02:04Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I was just going to stop at Lucky’s first and get you a doughnut. 🙂 Get thee back, Satan! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/7 "2015-01-14T15:03:40Z")
Mmm… Satan doughnuts…[drools] ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/8 "2015-01-14T15:06:26Z")
[That is how the dung beetle do.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zbgd6xpGQ) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/9 "2015-01-14T20:21:15Z")
Sometimes the world is a very strange place. This place is almost always strange. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/10 "2015-01-16T02:52:34Z")
Street Outlaws tv show has a group who built a dung beetle. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IIqbvFzdRHo/hqdefault.jpg "VW Dung Beetle Street Outlaws Making a Test Pass") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIqbvFzdRHo) ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/11 "2015-01-16T12:26:08Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Sometimes the world is a very strange place. > > This place is almost always strange. 🙂 It occurred to me to ask (before reading your comment): Is there such a thing as dung beetle dung? Is there a dung beetle dung beetle? So many questions. I realise this does not help make this place any less strange. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/12 "2015-01-16T12:30:29Z")
Dung beetles have smaller beetles, upon their dung to feed 'em. And those beetles have smaller beetles, and so ad infineetum. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/13 "2015-01-16T13:07:41Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [That is how the dung beetle do.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zbgd6xpGQ) I finally got around to watching this last night. Hilarious! “Cut the clip! Cut the clip!” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/14 "2015-01-16T22:23:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Dung beetles have smaller beetles, upon their dung to feed 'em. > And those beetles have smaller beetles, and so ad infineetum. So you’re saying it’s really dung beetles all the way down? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-say-dung-beetle-three-times-does-she-appear-before-you/709811/15 "2015-01-16T22:37:23Z")
[Professor “Creepy” Crawley](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI02uGb7peU) was the last person I recall hearing mention Dung Beetle.