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Bill Cosby and the series of rape allegations are not going away anytime soon. And now to make matters worse, a joke he told in 1969 about drugging women via their drinks has now resurfaced. Yikes!

Village Voice writer Alan Scherstuhl dug deep in the comedian’s recorded archives and discovered a bit from Cosby’s It’s True! It’s True! album where he mentions using the Spanish Fly aphrodisiac to bed women. The eerie similarities of the stories being told by Cosby’s accusers and the jokes are difficult to ignore.

From the Village Voice:

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.

Scherstuhl adds that hearing the joke in context with the recent news is “chilling” and notes how easily the crowd laughed along to what they thought was an innocent joke.

The irony of this is that a comedian, Hannibal Buress, made the rape accusation claims go viral after a recent gig in Cosby’s hometown of Philadelphia. Cosby’s attorney issued a statement this week shooting down the claims.

You can listen to the joke in question below courtesy of YouTube.

Photo: Guillermo Proano/WENN