More butts

[Joel S. Berson]

Mike Peters of "Mother Goose and Grimm" must be following ADS-L.  His
strip today (April 30),
http://www.grimmy.com/
has several instances of "butt" -- "butt-dialed", a person named
"Butley Buttford", and a profession and place, "a butt welder from
Butte".  One of the characters is the "syndicate censor", who says
"no 'B' words or we will replace you with a family-approved comic
strip", and when it appears again (in "butt welder"),  he tweets a
whistle.  The last panel is headlined "Love is ...", is captioned
"finding a family-approved strip", and is illustrated with the two
infants of that cartoon, both butt-naked and butt-presenting, the
young lady facing back over her shoulder at the reader and with a (I
say sly) smile while looking sideways at her male companion, perhaps
at his posterior.

(How did this strip get past the syndicate censor?)

"Love is" is a cartoon which presents its two characters naked, and
one can find an instance of presented butts in its occurrence on April 26.

P.S.  "Butt-naked" seems as transparent [no pun intended] a compound
as "butt-hole".  ("Butt-naked" isn't in the OED either.)

Joel

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