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pnwmom

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3. It's true. Someone recorded it in 1969 -- he jokes about putting Spanish Fly
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 04:15 PM
Nov 2014

into a woman's drink.

Hardy har har.

http://time.com/3591974/bill-cosby-spanish-fly-joke-drugging-women/

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In Bowman’s account and the accounts of several other women, Cosby allegedly slipped incapacitating drugs into the women’s drinks. They would pass out and wake up with Cosby assaulting them. As it turns out, years before he was doling out folksy wisdom on The Cosby Show, Cosby used that exact kind of scenario as joke fodder.

In a clip recently unearthed by the Village Voice, Cosby unsettlingly laughs about slipping the aphrodisiac “Spanish Fly” into women’s drinks as if dosing women was a sort-of universal boys-will-be-boys lark. In the clip, Cosby even says he went to Spain with his costar from the television show I Spy — for which Cosby was the first African-American costar in a primetime series — in hopes of picking up some Spanish Fly while there.

It’s True! It’s True! was recorded live at Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe and is one of the few Cosby records that isn’t family-friendly. Aside from the now-chilling Spanish Fly routine, the comedian drops a few curse words, and discusses burlesque shows and gambling.

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With more than a dozen women making similar accusations, including women who are not pnwmom Nov 2014 #1
He really had a routine about drugging and raping women? Elmer S. E. Dump Nov 2014 #2
It's true. Someone recorded it in 1969 -- he jokes about putting Spanish Fly pnwmom Nov 2014 #3
Holy shit! Odin2005 Nov 2014 #11
Hell, I didn't know that! Quackers Nov 2014 #22
You're welcome. I doubt that it was a coincidence that they decided to drop his new show pnwmom Nov 2014 #23
Hannibal Buress joked about date rape Adenoid_Hynkel Nov 2014 #30
Buress wasn't accused by women of drugging and raping them. pnwmom Nov 2014 #32
In the Sixties, I bet a lot of people missed it, even if they heard it. merrily Nov 2014 #28
Sad ..... hlthe2b Nov 2014 #4
Tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion. Exultant Democracy Nov 2014 #5
I think he damned himself with this old "comedy" routine. pnwmom Nov 2014 #6
You know that Spanish Fly doesn't incapacitate anyone right? Exultant Democracy Nov 2014 #7
He's joking about slipping a highly toxic substance into unknowing women's drinks pnwmom Nov 2014 #8
He said it is something every boy dreams of obtaining Ash_F Nov 2014 #13
Wittgenstein said, "If a thing can be thought, it can be said." Cosby thought and said it. Monk06 Nov 2014 #18
There was always something off about Cosby, to me Ash_F Nov 2014 #19
Slipping an aphrodisiac to an unknowing person is still somewhere on the scale of rapey-ness. nomorenomore08 Nov 2014 #15
An "actual roofie" is not as toxic as this stuff, which can kill with a few drops. pnwmom Nov 2014 #24
I admit I don't know much about "Spanish Fly" (nor do I wish to). nomorenomore08 Nov 2014 #26
I didn't realize it either. But apparently there's a long history of its use. pnwmom Nov 2014 #29
Wow...oysters? Supersedeas Nov 2014 #33
Not surprising.... Hulk Nov 2014 #9
"I just think appearing on fox lowered his respect for truth and his own race." nomorenomore08 Nov 2014 #16
I his son was killed in a racist hate crime, if I am not mistaken. /nt Ash_F Nov 2014 #20
Could've been... Hulk Nov 2014 #31
NBC? Nazi BC what PatrynXX Nov 2014 #10
There will never be a trial so the public is free to form its own opinion. And it's pretty hard pnwmom Nov 2014 #14
I'm sure he must be devastated, Old Nick Nov 2014 #12
I adored Bill Cosby as a child KMOD Nov 2014 #17
Plus TV Land is pulling The Cosby Show off their lineup davidpdx Nov 2014 #21
They are more of his victims then. n/t pnwmom Nov 2014 #25
Agreed davidpdx Nov 2014 #27
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