Irish urban myths.

I have little doubt that it is a myth but searching the archive for Bibi Baskin wouldn't necessarily bring it up if it is true. Compared to today, there would be far less fuss over and awareness of such a comment. The media might barely pick up on it. Even if they did report on it, they might describe it as a "vulgar comment about a named TV presenter" and that would be the end of it.

Probably because it happens a lot.

I have seen a few lads in A+E with 'groin injuries', from hoovers and leaf blowers.

The Bibi Baskin thing did happen.. I remember my parents teling me about it as they were big fans of Bibi.

But it was all Gerry Ryan's fault of course!

I searched the Irish News Archives too, and found it mentioned in a Barry Egan interview with Donna McCaul (who represented Ireland in the Eurovision with her brother Joe) in the Sunday Independent on August 17, 2008. The 'Michelle' mentioned by Donna here was Michelle Heaton, and for some reason, Barry Egan was reminded of the Bibi Baskin incident.

Just because Barry Egan mentioned it in 2008, doesn't prove that it was true, but the fact that it wasn't written about at the time it supposedly happened, doesn't mean that it didn't happen. As BrianD3 said, the media wouldn't have been as likely to mention something that was deemed to be vulgar. There was an awful lot less 'bad language' on the television and in the papers back then, and even if the call to Gerry's programme was mentioned, it probably wouldn't have been reported verbatim.

By the way, this was how I searched (and it was the 7th result):

i went a lot less specific with the Bibi search and have found mention in the Evening Echo, Dec 24th 1990. So at least now we know that it happened before then, if it happened at all, which it probably didn't

by DAVID O'CONNELL

"Remember that phone caller to the Gerry Ryan programme who had some particularly storng views on Bibi and exactly where he'd like to be buried?"

I thought that was true!

Richard Gere and the hamster.

These type of stories have really gone out of fashion.

and putting a Ryvita in each sock when walking where there are badgers, so the badger hears the snap of the Ryvita then leaves you alone

I heard that one about a theme park in the US.

Iv'e heard a couple throughout school and in college. they might not necessarily be Irish, but here goes...

The lad who has a pet snake. the snake goes off it's food and starts acting strangely, stretching out on the floor when the owner's in bed and such. he takes it to the vet who freaks out and tells him to get rid if it straight away. It turns out the snake is sizing up the owner to eat him.

So and so's aunt is on a holiday to New York/Los Angelas or some such and they're in a hotel lift when a black man enters and tells her to "hit the floor". she panicks and frops face down on the floor only to discover the man meant to press the button for the ground floor. And it was Will Smith.

The oldest one iv'e heard, and the strangest. someone is driving hime late at night through a very rural area, usually through a forest or such, when they see something on the road in front of them. As they get closer, they see it's a young woman lying on the road. They're about to get out when they get a creepy feeling and floor it, going around her and stopping one or two hundred metres up the road. looking back, they see that the woman is standing, surrounded by about a dozen others who had been in hiding, all looking after him.

Was it on it’s nightly rounds of giving cows the TB.

You really should keep your bike locked up to prevent the badgers from taking it.

The story out Charlie Haugheys car being stopped late one night in the phoenix park by a green gosoon of a guard and Finding that CJ and his lady friend both bollock naked,

Or Charlie and the "would you like a pint or a transfer" tale.