More butts

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/30/2012 03:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Yeah, but you're talking 2012. Almost mid 2012.

I only thought it was amusing how the strip's dialogue seemed to
correlate with the ADS-L discussion.  Not that it cast any light on the 1940s.

Joel


>See the thread on taboo avoidance.
>
>JL
>
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Mike Peters of "Mother Goose and Grimm" must be following ADS-L.  His
> > strip today (April 30),
> > http://www.grimmy.com/
> > has several instances of "butt" -- "butt-dialed", a person named
> > "Butley Buttford", and a profession and place, "a butt welder from
> > Butte".  One of the characters is the "syndicate censor", who says
> > "no 'B' words or we will replace you with a family-approved comic
> > strip", and when it appears again (in "butt welder"),  he tweets a
> > whistle.  The last panel is headlined "Love is ...", is captioned
> > "finding a family-approved strip", and is illustrated with the two
> > infants of that cartoon, both butt-naked and butt-presenting, the
> > young lady facing back over her shoulder at the reader and with a (I
> > say sly) smile while looking sideways at her male companion, perhaps
> > at his posterior.
> >
> > (How did this strip get past the syndicate censor?)
> >
> > "Love is" is a cartoon which presents its two characters naked, and
> > one can find an instance of presented butts in its occurrence on April 26.
> >
> > P.S.  "Butt-naked" seems as transparent [no pun intended] a compound
> > as "butt-hole".  ("Butt-naked" isn't in the OED either.)
> >
> > Joel
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