# Is dropping the soap in the shower at prison really a big deal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625 "2005-10-30T20:59:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/41 "2005-11-01T17:05:40Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > So, did you hear about that celebrity that went to prison? > > His first day there he dropped the soap in the shower and this prison gang jumped him. > > They raped him dozens of times and sodomized him with a baseball bat. Then they beat him up for a while and broke several of his bones. Then they got bored so they tied him up under the shower and turned the water on to all hot so he’d get real burned. > > Finally the guard found him in the shower and asked him “What’s the name of the gang that did this to you?” > > “The Aristocrats!” Must… not… laugh… will… go… to… hell… ---
**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:** [November 1, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/42 "2005-11-01T17:22:50Z")
> [@Chef Troy](#): > > Your brother is George Carlin? wow. No; nor did I know Carlin said it. I guess he was just repeating it; it’s _still_ a good joke. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/43 "2005-11-01T18:50:13Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > **NinjaChick** , I love ya dearly, but \*everything \*\* is worthy of a joke, be it dark humor… > > \*Standard disclaimers apply. OK Anaamika, I’ll bite. Just what \*‘standard disclaimers’ \* are there? Technically, there shouldn’t be any. If one goes on to enumerate topics that are hands-off / sacred cows, they’re really no different than Ninja and are imposing their own rules of morality and what’s funny on others. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/44 "2005-11-01T19:03:40Z")
I’d guess that your answer resides in large part in how you approach picking that bar of soap up. If, like you did stretching for P.E. class, you cross your legs, bend over and bounce to get your hands to the floor then yeah, you’re probably gonna get drove like the one shiny, red Porsche in a lot full of grey Buicks. But if you just squat on down, pick up the bar and are back to full vertical in the blink of a red eye then no, you’re probably gonna stay golden. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/45 "2005-11-01T19:06:05Z")
I’m not **Anaamika** , **JohnBckWLD** , but I would guess that the standard disclaimer is “circumstances”. Or “it depends on context”. That is, telling a prison rape joke at the funeral of someone who died during a prison rape incident would be right out. Making a joke on a message board based on the same situation is A-OK. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/46 "2005-11-01T21:00:57Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > So, did you hear about that celebrity that went to prison? > > His first day there he dropped the soap in the shower and this prison gang jumped him. > > They raped him dozens of times and sodomized him with a baseball bat. Then they beat him up for a while and broke several of his bones. Then they got bored so they tied him up under the shower and turned the water on to all hot so he’d get real burned. > > Finally the guard found him in the shower and asked him “What’s the name of the gang that did this to you?” > > “The Aristocrats!” You suck _so much_. _can’t help laughing at this, really honestly can’t_ ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/47 "2005-11-01T21:20:11Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > OK Anaamika, I’ll bite. Just what \*‘standard disclaimers’ \* are there? Technically, there shouldn’t be any. If one goes on to enumerate topics that are hands-off / sacred cows, they’re really no different than Ninja and are imposing their own rules of morality and what’s funny on others. There are always people ready to cross ANY line, but I’d imagine that most people would acknowledge that a line exists this side of child molestation, rape, the Holocaust, 9/11, slavery, racism, aborted fetuses, you get the drift. Although Nambla is \*always \*funny. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/48 "2005-11-01T21:48:14Z")
I disagree. Those topics are _extremely_ fertile ground for very guffaw-worthy dark humor, and those of us who would go there are not necessarily racist baby-eating monsters. In fact, I know a belly-buster for each of the ones you listed. But this topic has been done to death here before. Humor is relative to the audience. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/49 "2005-11-01T21:55:25Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > So, did you hear about that celebrity that went to prison? > > His first day there he dropped the soap in the shower and this prison gang jumped him. > > They raped him dozens of times and sodomized him with a baseball bat. Then they beat him up for a while and broke several of his bones. Then they got bored so they tied him up under the shower and turned the water on to all hot so he’d get real burned. > > Finally the guard found him in the shower and asked him “What’s the name of the gang that did this to you?” > > “The Aristocrats!” Sorry, I still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/50 "2005-11-01T22:43:09Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > Sorry, I still don’t get it. [Enjoy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats). Link courtesey of **Gorillaman**. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/51 "2005-11-02T01:53:45Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > [Enjoy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats). > > Link courtesey of **Gorillaman**. And yet, I still don’t find it funny. Perhaps my funny bone is broken. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/52 "2005-11-02T03:15:42Z")
Heh, I think it is. Want an extra funny bone? I think I’ve got some extras. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/53 "2005-11-02T03:38:03Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > \ > It’s generally not acceptable to joke about a prisoner getting stabbed to death with a crude shiv. > \ Well, what if the guy getting shivved slips on a banana peel and goes flying and knocks the bar of soap off the shelf and the soap boinks him on the head? Don’t tell me you wouldn’t laugh at _that_ . . . oh . . . ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/54 "2005-11-03T16:58:45Z")
It occurs to me that there is a simple way to send this particular “joke” to eternal oblivion. In one word (well, one compound word): Soap-on-a-Rope ---
**Author:** ![eviladam\_part\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@eviladam\_part\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eviladam_part_2)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/55 "2005-11-03T17:18:52Z")
[Donny the Punk](http://www.spr.org/en/news/pre2002/doc_01_answerme.html) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625/56 "2005-11-03T17:36:03Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > And yet, I still don’t find it funny. Perhaps my funny bone is broken. :dubious: Oh, you’re just being difficult. Here’s an [explanation](http://www.angrynakedpat.com/wwwboard/messages65/956.htm) by a professional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dropping-the-soap-in-the-shower-at-prison-really-a-big-deal/328625.md?page=2)