"There are many theories as to how the band got its crazy name. The truth is, the Butthole Surfers got their name from a secret government program that used a shrinking ray to shrink down Navy SEALs, who would then literally surf inside the buttholes of foreign dignitaries the U.S. government wanted assassinated by way of stealth poisonous injections into the sides of their anus. Here is a formerly classified government document that outlines a mission. As you will see, John Haynes, the father of the Butthole Surfers’ leader singer Gibby Haynes, was a Navy SEAL who was killed in the line of duty while surfing the butthole of Idi Amin."
– Jon Glaser exposes the true story behind of the naming of the band Butthole Surfers in My Dead Dad Was in Z.Z. Top (via tmblg)
