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

[Victor Steinbok]

Funny you should say that... From the latest Tea Party email:

> "If you haven’t heard, I'm talking about the blitz we the Tea Party
> set into motion, steamrolling right over the lame-brain media to
> expose American’s Fraud President for who he really is: con-man, scam
> artist, liar, snake oil salesman--Satan incarnate."

What's a retroactive change in a newspaper or two for Satan Incarnate!

Other gems from the screed:

> Why won’t you hear about this in the main drain media?

> Oh no, the pi**-off press would rather we all stand in the middle of
> the street with tattered cardboard signs yelling, "The Sky Is Falling"
> so they can keep us on a short leash. Not happening.

Some is actually paid to write this stuff.

> Because of strong Patriots like you and me, the only thing that's
> going to be falling is America's Fraud President--right off his high
> horse and back to the hole he crawled out of. Oh yeah, in whatever
> country that may have been because it sure as sh*t wasn’t the U.S. And
> the other thing that's going to be falling? The media morons, right on
> their proverbial swords, when they see what the Tea Party is exposing.
> It’s the biggest fraud ever carried out at the expense of the American
> people, and the media muppets--all the president's puppets--are too
> busy burying their noses up the president's arse to see it.
> ...
> Word on the street has it that clandestine meetings are taking place
> behind closed doors of the media sweat shops. Hushed whispers are
> being heard up and down the hallways.
> ...
> arrogant little bas"turds"
> ...
> All I can say is: HOT DA*N!
> ...
> Some refuse to pick up. Others slam the receiver down and tell us to
> "F-Off!" A few, however, listen and rejoice that someone with enough
> -balls- intestinal fortitude is finally standing up to the Obama Media
> Machine and bringing the TRUTH to grassroots America.

The mix of taboo avoidance devices is actually interesting. They seem to
be using /all/ of them.

We have pi**-off, sh*t, F-Off, HOT DA*N, but also arse and -ball- (the
latter with strike-through). "Arse", to me, sounds unusual, as this is
not the normal spelling in this context. So, rather than excising a few
letters, they just thought, apparently, that using alternative spelling
will get them off the hook. Fun, fun stuff... and they put out several
of these every day.

VS-)

On 4/28/2012 1:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> But that could only be done by God or the devil.
>
> Oh! Wait!
>
> JL

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