Heard on The Judges: more influence of Forrest Gump's "BUH tock_s_"?
Doug Harris
cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Thu May 1 13:48:08 UTC 2008
Conceptually, that's undoubtedly why I've always viewed the word 'botox'
as odd, ugly and rather counterintuitive: Who'd want another body part
to look like buttoxes?
dh
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Good grief, arnold! Buttockses?! Not even "buttox - buttoxes"?! That's
downright criminal! And yet, there's nothing to be done.
-Wilson
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > Thirty-ish black, female plaintiff:
> >
> > "Her boyfriend shot her in the _butts_!
>
> does look like "butt" reshaped under the influence of "buttocks". and
> then, of course, comes the double plural "buttses" (like the
> "buttockses" we talked about on 2/10/08).
>
> Wait for this to load and you will laugh your buttses off! ...
> kawaiimimiru.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=20
>
> UPS couldn't find there own buttses with a flashlight, a GPS, ... I
> will forever use "OMGWTF iz up with j00? ur bein a pain in our
> buttses. ...
> cmpriest.livejournal.com/791091.html
>
> Our buttses were like so stiff and like so sore from like snowplowing
> with the little guy that we... Snowplowing made our buttses sore.
> rabidrunner.blogspot.com/2007/04/concision.html
>
> This game really kicks some major monkey buttses! :
> crazy-izam.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=10
>
> and then an example referring to cigarette butts rather than the body-
> parts:
>
> That afternoon we gathered a hatful of cigarette "buttses" along the
> street, ... We rambled along, singing songs, smoking cigarette
> "buttses," and having a ...
> books.google.com/books?isbn=0226751260...
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