1947 Archie Comic "butthole." What did it mean?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/3/2012 01:33 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>Or, to secure the rhyme:, "'Tis with our judgments as our watches,
>none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own."

The magisterial rhymes of the 18th century.  Or did Pope pronounce it "un"?

Joel


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>Another criterion, to judge from our collection, is concavity.
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>And of course they needn't be body parts at all; we could cite
>alienable but ubiquitous possessions.  I've always liked this line
>from Pope, which is nicely adaptable to (though presumably not
>designed for) the non-idiosyncracy of grammaticality judgments:
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>'Tis with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike,
>yet each believes his own.
>
>LH
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