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

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Apr 28 17:11:54 UTC 2012


But that could only be done by God or the devil.

Oh! Wait!

JL

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it
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> If people believe that Obama's birth announcement could have been
> planted in newspapers in 1961, why couldn't a 1947 comic strip?
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>     VS-)
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> On 4/27/2012 11:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > Wait! I know! The devil recently planted the word to fool us into
> > believing that "butthole" wouldn't have seemed vulgar in 1947! That
> > way, we'd forget how disgusting we've become since! JL
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