# Pat Boone -- Dick in a Box **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 7, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730 "2009-11-07T19:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/21 "2015-12-06T18:32:55Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > It’s funny, I almost posted Pat Boone’s in that thread but didn’t want to read through 3 pages of dick stuff just to see if it had been posted already. > > Personally I’m inclined to believe the photo is real. It looks as though there has been a bigger hole that had been covered up by two flaps forming another smaller hole for the dick. That seems like a detail a hoaxer wouldn’t have thought of. Also the pic surfaced before the advent of PS. I know that there was photo manipulation before that but still… I’m not sure I’m looking at the same image others are in this thread. All I see is a standard cardboard box, flaps meeting along a horizontal seam, flaps on the shorter sides not meeting in the middle, and a penis and scrotum pushed through an apparent hole cut between the seam of the two long flaps. I cant see the edges of the hole at all ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/22 "2015-12-06T21:06:02Z")
> [@D18](#): > > Happy to! There is a black and white photo of a youngish Pat Boone, standing and facing the camera. He is holding a box in front of his crotch (think of a shoe box with the lid off.). There is a hole in the box and his penis is sticking through the hole, in full view. He is otherwise fully dressed. The claim is that this picture surfaced in someone’s trash. See, I knew I didn’t need to google this. That’s plenty, thanks. What would he have done with cellphone picture texting technology, one wonders? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/23 "2015-12-06T22:09:12Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I forgot that **Happy Fun Ball** underwent a name change… Is it okay to taunt now? ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/24 "2015-12-07T00:41:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The controversy is that Pat Boone’s public image is one of a very [devout Christian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone#Religious_background) who would _never_ do such a thing as pull the Dick In A Box prank. Oh I know who he is and why it’s supposed to be a big deal. It’s that my give a shit factor is just really low on a 81 year old guy who hasn’t done anything I’d care about in forever. Especially after “family values” guy after “family values” guys is found with his hand in the wrong cookie jar. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/25 "2015-12-07T03:02:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03od5jcMjTs) is YouTube video that doesn’t appear to show any naughty bits. It’s five minutes long and the set-up (explanation, etc.) is long so I just forwarded to the pranks, which took place on the street. I strongly suspect this is a YouTube “prank.” It would be insane to risk flashing strange women these days. Sure, some may respond like that girl did, but how many would freak completely out? I always assumed this was a frat prank or a boyfriend/girlfriend prank. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/26 "2015-12-07T03:22:53Z")
Is every one nuts? How long has photoshop been around? _ANY_ photo on the internet should always be suspect. Why are people suddenly believing that this particular photo on the internet is real? I’m certain that if one googled “Pat Boone nude” there would be multiple hits. And are there people that believe that these photos would be genuine? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/27 "2015-12-07T03:32:34Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I strongly suspect this is a YouTube “prank.” It would be insane to risk flashing strange women these days. Sure, some may respond like that girl did, but how many would freak completely out? > > I always assumed this was a frat prank or a boyfriend/girlfriend prank. The parts of the video I watched, it was a boyfriend pranking his girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/28 "2015-12-08T00:34:40Z")
> [@spifflog](#): > > Put me down for amazingly underwhelmed. Oh, so you saw his dick. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/29 "2015-12-08T00:51:21Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > Why are people suddenly believing that this particular photo on the internet is real? Because it was first published in Hustler magazine in 1984. The photo is definitely real in that sense. Whether or not it is of Pat Boone, or his tiny member, remains unconfirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/30 "2015-12-08T02:16:04Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Because it was first published in Hustler magazine in 1984. > > The photo is definitely real in that sense. Whether or not it is of Pat Boone, or his tiny member, remains unconfirmed. Do you or any one else have the original 1984 print that was taken of Pat Boone? The image floating around on the internet may or may not be an image of of that original print, but once a photo ends up on the internet, it is easily altered no matter when the original photo was taken. And I’m sure you realize that “trick photography” goes way back before 1984 and didn’t start with Photoshop. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/31 "2015-12-08T02:47:03Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > Do you or any one else have the original 1984 print that was taken of Pat Boone? Here’s the (supposed) photo along with the (supposed) article from Hustler [NSFW]: [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/XzoDt.jpg) And a bonus shower pic which (supposedly) appeared in LIFE magazine [also NSFW]: [http://www.ipernity.com/doc/scumbeast/12554067](http://www.ipernity.com/doc/scumbeast/12554067) ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730/32 "2015-12-08T03:01:13Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > Do you or any one else have the original 1984 print that was taken of Pat Boone? The image floating around on the internet may or may not be an image of of that original print, but once a photo ends up on the internet, it is easily altered no matter when the original photo was taken. > > And I’m sure you realize that “trick photography” goes way back before 1984 and didn’t start with Photoshop. It would probably help a lot if you did some rudimentary research on the subject yourself. It was in the January 1984 issue of Hustler. That isn’t exactly difficult to find online. The offices of Hustler also had a life-sized cardboard cutout of the photo on display. It was also mentioned in the autobiography of a former Hustler executive who once busted his face on the sidewalk rushing to carry the cutout to a live, impromptu Pat Boone appearance near their offices. As to your remaining observations, yes, obviously we don’t know if the original photo was manipulated or if it is even Pat Boone - or if it isn’t manipulated and it is Pat Boone, if it was actually his schlong (and I use that term generously) or a trick box of some kind. That is kind of the point of this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-dick-in-a-box/516730.md?page=1)