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

[Jonathan Lighter]

>  The mix of taboo avoidance devices is actually interesting.

So "turds" must now be a euphemism for...er.."tards."  (Which I suppose is
short for "retards.")

Who is this mystery man anyway?

"Some say he was born in the African jungle. Others, on a far Pacific
island....Barack Obama denies he's a Muslim, yet he denounced the burning
of the Koran, Islam's HOLIEST OF HOLY BOOKS!"

(With thanx to Mad Magazine and what's left of my recall.)

JL

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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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