More butts

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but you're talking 2012. Almost mid 2012.

See the thread on taboo avoidance.

JL

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      More butts
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org