1947 Archie Comic "butthole." What did it mean?
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 3 15:59:36 UTC 2012
> lacks an entry ...
That's because I made up the variant at 8:09 pm yesterday. In my head. Note
the gap before it was first recorded in Charlie's post.
JL
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster: Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: 1947 Archie Comic "butthole." What did it mean?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I sent the following several hours ago, but, as far as I can tell, it
> never got posted (that happens to a certain percentage of the items I
> endeavor to post-- perhaps 5% or 10%).
>
> << I must confess: The (now in print) _Dictionary of Modern Proverbs_
> lacks an entry for "Theories are like assholes . . . ." However, entries
> for the more common "Excuses are like assholes . . ." and "Opinions are
> like assholes . . ." do appear (with the silly "armpits" variants). >>
>
> --Charlie
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of
> Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:25 AM
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Um, everybody's got one.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Dan Nussbaum <yekkey at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster: Dan Nussbaum <yekkey at AOL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: 1947 Archie Comic "butthole." What did it mean?
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > And you know what they say about theories.
> >
> > What?
> >
> >
> > Dan Nussbaum=20
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list