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

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> They were spittoons, not cigarette urns. . . .Never saw one in the
> movies, only in bars.

I recall spittoons/cuspidors as part of the furnishings of
barbershops, back in the '40's and '50's. Bars didn't have them, by
the time that I was old enough to drink in bars, ca. 1953, but
barbershops still did.

Weren't cigarette-urns vase-looking containers for holding loose
cigarettes provided to guests by a gracious host(ess)?

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