More butts

[Jonathan Lighter]

Truly we have a long reach.

JL

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/30/2012 03:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Yeah, but you're talking 2012. Almost mid 2012.
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> I only thought it was amusing how the strip's dialogue seemed to
> correlate with the ADS-L discussion.  Not that it cast any light on the
> 1940s.
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> Joel
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> >See the thread on taboo avoidance.
> >
> >JL
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> >On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > 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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