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

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/28/2012 02:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>P.S. So when Archie said (in reference to being an usher at a movie theatre
>and seeing the same movie
>over and over again--18 times to be exact) "It gets kind of butthole at
>times", he meant that his job got to be as dreary/wearying as digging one
>of those holes to bury a cigarette butt. Montana had slipped in a term that
>most of the public would not likely know. But any soldiers who had heard
>the story about the hole-digging-to-bury-a-discarded-cigarette punishment
>(and such stories no doubt spread beyond whatever base or bases they
>occurred at), would no doubt have known exactly why Archie wasn't enthused
>about his ushering job.

I'm convinced.  But Archie must have been a very young soldier, and
have already been discharged and working in the private sector, to
employ the word.

Joel

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