Up to 20 lbs of poop!

[Northern_Piper]

Verily, there is nothing new under the woo-sun. Thread from 2000:

John Wayne's Colon

I’m not sure if this is a UL or just local bullshit. I’m interested to see if: (1) anyone else here has heard this, and (2) if it is the UL bullshit I suspect it is. Every now and again, at the local bar, somebody will bring up this tidbit of cute celebrity autopsy trivia: “John Wayne had 26 pounds of feces [to polite it up a bit] in his intestines when he died.” First, I coulda swore he died of lung cancer (nuclear testing in Nevada, fallout, etc.). But–those that love bringing this subject …

My particular contribution to that thread:

@Northern_Piper

[humming]

“John Wayne’s colon is mouldering in the grave,
His films go rolling on.”

[/humming]

And then the follow-up thread just a year later, in 2001:

John Wayne's bowels (yecch!)

I was listening to a local Chicago FM staion on a recent Sunday morning and they were running an “infommercial” type show extolling the virtues of some doctor’s “intestinal cleansing” program. At one point the “interviewer” brought up the factoid that at John Wayne’s autopsy, an inordinate amount of…er…waste material (They were talking in terms of lbs.) was discovered in the Duke’s lower intestines as if this were common knowledge. First, has anyone else heard of this rumor and secondly, would …