# Wow. Rush Quote from '88 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730 "2004-11-08T22:07:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/21 "2004-11-09T01:07:43Z")
> [@Who\_me?](#): > > There are also people saying that quote came from a November 1988 “Boondocks” comic strip… unfortunately that comic didn’t start until 1996… > > Someone probably made it up to make some sort of stupid point… Well, I can’t call it up because it requires a subscription to find a comic loder than a fortnight, but I do recall that a couple of months ago, McGruder was running strips that pretended to be archives from the distant past (i.e., before the advent of the strip). I vaguely recall Rush being lampooned in at least one of them. That said, I cannot definitively attribute the quote in the OP to Aaron McGruder. It does seem likely, though. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/22 "2004-11-09T01:25:40Z")
I think the drug addict tagline is a little too pat, and it’s a non-sequitur to boot. The whole thing sounds made up. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/23 "2004-11-09T01:30:51Z")
I figured the good folks at the Snopes message board would know something about this. [I was right.](http://www.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/32/t/000343.html) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/24 "2004-11-09T01:33:54Z")
Thanks for the legwork, **Loopy**. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/25 "2004-11-09T01:34:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Thanks for the legwork, **Loopy**. :smack: I mean **Loopus**. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/26 "2004-11-09T01:38:33Z")
> [@Who\_me?](#): > > There are also people saying that quote came from a November 1988 “Boondocks” comic strip… unfortunately that comic didn’t start until 1996… > > Someone probably made it up to make some sort of stupid point… According to the Snopes board it was from a faux “Classic Boondocks” strip which was rendered as though it were a strip from 1988 but was actually written in 2004. It’s a gag. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/27 "2004-11-09T01:39:51Z")
I knew it was too good to be true. It would be like finding a lusty love letter from Ann Coulter to Janet Reno. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/28 "2004-11-09T01:41:12Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I knew it was too good to be true. It would be like finding a lusty love letter from Ann Coulter to Janet Reno. Hottest. Idea. EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/29 "2004-11-09T01:49:25Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I knew it was too good to be true. It would be like finding a lusty love letter from Ann Coulter to Janet Reno. Thank you for **that** mental image. Now I’m going to have to wash my brain with Clorox. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/30 "2004-11-09T03:17:08Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I knew it was too good to be true. It would be like finding a lusty love letter from Ann Coulter to Janet Reno. Too much information! Thanks to you, I must now start drinking heavily, to purge that horrible image from my mind. I hope you’re satisfied. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/31 "2004-11-10T00:12:59Z")
[Official Snopes Page](http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp) This was just put up, with the image of the comic as well. It’s false. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/32 "2004-11-10T01:10:11Z")
And the fact that so many people were convinced it was a real quote demonstrates just how far out on the fringe Rush is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/33 "2004-11-10T01:35:17Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > And the fact that so many people were convinced it was a real quote demonstrates just how far out on the fringe Rush is. 😃 Ya. _That_ is what some peoples’ willingness to gobble up this ‘quote’ shows. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/34 "2004-11-10T01:41:54Z")
Sure, because it wasn’t even remotely believable. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/35 "2004-11-10T14:37:54Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > And the fact that so many people were convinced it was a real quote demonstrates just how far out on the fringe Rush is. 😃 Right, and anyone who believed it, and used it as a cite, must be a deluded moron. [Wouldn’t you agree, **rjung**?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5464987&postcount=96) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/36 "2004-11-10T15:05:54Z")
I think we’ve just witnesses as close as **rjung** can come to an admission of error. “Yes, I was fooled. But since I was fooled we can tell for sure that the accusation was plausable!” ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/37 "2004-11-10T15:23:12Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I knew it was too good to be true. It would be like finding a lusty love letter from Ann Coulter to Janet Reno. Don’t forget the reply, in which Janet Reno writes of her desire to break down the gates of Coulter’s reinforced compound and fire round after round of tear gas inside. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/38 "2004-11-10T16:55:28Z")
Wow, didn’t mean to open up such a can of worms. I checked Snopes on this when I first read it, but they didn’t have anything up. It’s there now though. “Googling for veracity” seems to be on par with “Fucking for Virginity” Consider me contrite. ---
**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 10, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/39 "2004-11-10T19:23:33Z")
But. How do we know we can trust _Snopes_? Has Cecil publicly declared \*his \*inherent trust in Snopes? How do we know Snopes isn’t simply a self-serving fabricator and debunker of rumors…run by Them for Their own nefarious purposes? :eek: What if Snopes hooked into this very thread and quickly issued a “debunk” of an accurate quote? Anyone ever thought of _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730/40 "2004-11-10T19:42:09Z")
They know enough [to defer to Cecil](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_258.html) so they’re okay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-rush-quote-from-88/273730.md?page=3)