More butts

[Victor Steinbok]

It's been brought to my attention that I sent this message earlier in
HTML. My apologies for flooding the list with nonsense... I can only
hope the removing the code will partially rectify that situation. ;-)

==== Original message

"Buck-naked" is not in the OED either, but, at least, there is a quote
under pleasure n. 2.

> 1974 S. King /Carrie/ (1975) 28   I'd go out and dance the
> hootchie-kootchie buck naked if that was her pleasure and mine.

"Butt-naked" doesn't even get that privilege.

Peters's cartoon from April 26 is also interesting:

Ralph is in his usual dumb pose, while Grimm retorts, "Dude, you're
supposed to stick it to the man, not retrieve the man's stick."

     VS-)

On 4/30/2012 2:27 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> 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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