# Uh... did they just show a goatse image on CNN? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655 "2004-08-26T18:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655/21 "2004-08-27T16:14:44Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I hope that isn’t an omen. > > Whatever event it might be foreshadowing, it can’t possibly be good :eek: > > (And yes, I was unfortunate enough to have seen Goatse.) _Gets the “The End Of The World Is Nigh” sign out_ It’s a sign! A sign from God! All you sinners repent and love Jesus here in the last of days! Okay, so I make a bad crazy religious guy ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655/22 "2004-08-27T16:36:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > And the description of “tubgirl” was worse than the one I thought they were referring to, on [Rotten.com](http://Rotten.com). There’s more than one tubgirl? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655/23 "2004-08-27T16:41:25Z")
There’s the filth fountain tubgirl… which is the iconic tubgirl. And then there’s all the pictures of so-and-so who died while taking a hot bath, wasn’t found, and is now soup… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655/24 "2004-08-27T17:02:17Z")
Dear Og. _Neither_ of those is the one I saw as the fist picture, the first (and pretty much only time) I visited [rotten.com](http://rotten.com). The one I saw was of a dead girl in a bathtub, whose abdomen had been opened and the viscera removed. :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655/25 "2004-08-27T18:51:04Z")
Well, that’s deffinitely _A_ tubgirl, but it’s not _THE_ tubgirl. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655/26 "2004-08-27T19:39:16Z")
I initially thought the name “tubgirl” was meant to evoke [tubcat](http://www.tubcat.com/), and referred to an altogether different picture. Imagine my horror. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-did-they-just-show-a-goatse-image-on-cnn/261655.md?page=1)