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I Was Bitten By a Turtle When I Was a Young Lad refers to a copypasta from a Yahoo! Answers question in which a person asks if they can still drink orange juice even though they were bitten by a turtle as a child. The question, considered ridiculous for its syntax as well as the supposed medical connection between turtle bites and orange juice, has been posted numerous times on the site and elsewhere.

Origin

On September 1st, 2008,^[1] Yahoo! Answers user Tuggy posed the question, "I was bitten by a turtle when I was a young lad, should I still drink orange juice?" For additional information, they said "I need to know ya'll. I love to drink that dang OJ. It be tasting very good to me." Ostensibly, they were trolling.

Spread

Following Tuggy's post, the same question appeared on Yahoo! Answers dozens of times in the following years.^[2] On December 29th, 2010, Owl City^[3] posted the question to his Facebook page. The question was also included in a Complex^[4] compilation of dumb Yahoo! Answers questions. The question continues to be posted to Yahoo! Answers in 2017, to some exhaustion. One commenter responded to the question, posed in March,^[5] "can't believe anyone is still trying to troll with this old, unoriginal "question". This has been posted at least once a week for years."

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