Eons ago, Libertarian launched a thread called Up the Butt, Bob in which he and his now lovely bride maintained that they saw the famous episode of The Newlywed Game in which a contestant responds to the question “Where is the strangest place you’ve made love” with “Up the Butt, Bob” or some variation thereto. This episode was generally thought not to exist, and therefore all reports of sightings have been regarded skeptically.
The thread ended up with Libertarian frustrated at all the skeptics taunting him that it didn’t happen, but realizing that it was near impossible to prove either way, so he gave up but swore to return when he had concrete evidence.
The thread also spawned a Trapper John M.D. to its MASH, a gen-yuu-wine Straight Dope column Did some Japanese soldiers hold out for years after WWII?. Of course, the column has nothing to do with butts or The Newlywed Game.
Back on topic, the folks at Snopes have recently updated their page on this legend, Up the butt, Bob, with the new status Sort of. Here is a quote and an episode and date from this page:
You can also download a video clip of the episode, as well - I haven’t seen it as my computer is currently ill, but the link is on the snopes page.
So, it’s not quite the exact fit that would entitle Lib to walk around town for a month with David B. on a leash wearing nothing but a diaper and a large sign saying “I was wrong”, but at least it’s within the realm of possibility that Lib saw said episode and retroactively changed the dialog in his mind to “Up the Butt, Bob” when he read of the urban legend.
Now, what is there to debate you ask? Whether or not I should have reopened that monster of a thread instead of posting a new one. The damn thing had well over 200 posts and I didn’t think a new post tagged on the end would be helpful. The only reason this is in GD is because the original thread was also here - I hope that the wrath of David or Gaudere will not rain down too harshly upon me for this. Perhaps for the diaper comment, though…