Bill Cosby was dead silent this weekend when Weekend Edition host Scott Simon asked him about those pesky rape allegations, but he hasn't always been—in fact, he jokes about drugging women's drinks an early stand-up routine that loosely corresponds to his accusers' stories. 
 
 The Village Voice's Alan Scherstuhl tracked down the 1969 routine, where Cosby discusses "Spanish fly," a secret substance boys start hearing about "on the corner." [According to legend, it acts as an aphrodisiac when slipped into a woman's drink at a frat party. In reality it's an irritant that's sometimes deadly.] 
 
 It always happens when you're 13, only when you're 13 on up 'til when you get married. Guys standing around and talking about Spanish fly. "You know anything about Spanish fly?" "No, tell me about it." "Well there's this girl Crazy Mary, you put some in her drink man, she, 'Haaaaaaaaaaaaah.'" "Oh yeah, that's really groovy man, Spanish fly is groovy, yeah." From then on, any time you see a girl: "Wish I had some Spanish fly." Go to a party see five girls standing alone: "Boy if I had a whole jug of Spanish fly, I'd light that corner up over there. HAAAAAAH." 
 
 Cosby intimates his interest in date rape as a 13-year-old continued into adulthood, explaining his excitement when he found out his 1960's TV show I Spy was filming in Spain. 
 
 A childhood dream come true... I said, "Hey Bob, you know what I'm going to pick up in Spain? He said, "Spanish fly." 
 
 If Cosby's slip it in her drink routine sounds vaguely familiar, it's because most of his accusers say he slipped something in their drink: 
 
 In his bungalow he made me a redeye, and I began to tell him about the earthquake Los Angeles had just had and the sound it made. He liked my ideas for an earthquake bit. The next thing I remember was coming to on his couch while being undressed. 
 
 He sent a limo to pick me up and I was dropped off at the Sherry Netherland Hotel and went up to his suite. I remember noticing that his leather shaving kit was filled with bottles of pills, and thinking that this seemed odd. He was, of course, very friendly and I, of course, was very uncomfortable. He made me a redeye, and I, being nervous and dealing at the time with an alcohol problem (I've been in recovery since 1988), drank it. In the car I had something else to drink, but was already beginning to feel a bit stoned. 
 
 He invited me to his New York brownstone for dinner. Staff was there. We ate in the kitchen. I had one glass of red wine with dinner. My next recollection is me, coming to, slumped over the toilet bowl, throwing up. I was wearing a man's white t-shirt and my panties. 
 
 [h/t Uproxx] ||||| Time was, this country responded to rape accusations against America's Sweater Dad, Bill Cosby, the same way Cosby's Noah did to God's command that he put two of each animal onto a boat: by saying, "Riiiiiiiiiiigghhhht" and then moving on. 
 
 
 
 Today, though, the testimonials against Cosby keep coming, and the man himself is canceling public appearances, stonewalling a clearly shaken Scott Simon of NPR, and finally responding with a public statement (sent through his lawyer) that has right on its surface one immediately verifiable lie: "At age 77, he is doing his best work." 
 
 Cosby's dozen-plus accusers tell similar stories: that, after having a drink with Cosby, they felt drugged and confused as he had his way with them. Curiously, Cosby himself once made such scenarios the center of a stand-up routine: Witness "Spanish Fly," a cut from his now-unfortunately titled 1969 LP It's True! It's True!. 
 
 In it, Cosby describes being a kid and hearing about a wonder drug -- "Spanish Fly" -- that would make a girl go crazy once it was put into her drink. He presents this as a horny/goofy lark of an idea, a myth that kids buy into all over the world. More disturbingly, Cosby then describes his adult interest in such a drug, especially on a trip he took to Spain with Robert Culp of I Spy -- both Culp and Cosby, he claims, were desperate to get their hands on some Spanish Fly. 
 
 Even when I heard this bit as a kid, I wondered: Why would famous TV stars need a drug to get women interested in them? Why is sex something to lie and cheat and scheme to get, rather than something to share? Hearing it now, it's positively chilling, especially the crowd's easy laughter, which suggests that Cosby was able to put over his fantasy of women stripped of their ability to say no as something near universal. Boys will be boys, hahaha, and then refuse ever to speak of it once they become rich and powerful men. 
 
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– As the sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby continue to mount, Alan Scherstuhl at the Village Voice makes an interesting observation: Cosby's accusers all have a similar story, that of feeling drugged after having drinks with the comedian, then getting assaulted. "Curiously, Cosby himself once made such scenarios the center of a stand-up routine," Scherstuhl writes. He's talking about "Spanish Fly," from Cosby's 1969 LP, It's True! It's True!. The bit features Cosby recalling how, at 13, he heard about "Spanish fly," a drug that "would make a girl go crazy once it was put into her drink," Scherstuhl writes. Then, "more disturbingly, Cosby ... describes his adult interest in such a drug." (At Gawker, Gabrielle Bluestone notes that Spanish fly is actually "an irritant that's sometimes deadly.") The comedy routine includes the lines, "Any time you see a girl: 'Wish I had some Spanish fly.' Go to a party, see five girls standing alone: 'Boy, if I had a whole jug of Spanish fly, I'd light that corner up over there.'"