1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I was afeard you'd ask that.  "Boring" perhaps?  I admit that the letters
of "butthole" fill the balloon nicely. But maybe Montana had an assitant do
the lettering and ballooning.

Hell, I don't have all the answers!

JL

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/24/2012 08:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >I wouldn't rule out sabotage by the proverbial disgruntled employee. And
> >maybe the editorial lapse is not so odd after all: what comics editor
> would
> >double-check "Archie" for a bad word?
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> If sabotage, what word(s) were intended by the cartoonist?
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> Joel
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