1947 Archie Comic "butthole." What did it mean?

[Charles C Doyle]

Jonathan, you may think you made it up, but your subconscious mind knows better.  3170 raw Google hits appear, and an occurrence in an e-book.

--Charlie

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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:59 AM

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>   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:

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> 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%).
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> <<  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).  >>
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> --Charlie
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> Um, everybody's got one.
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> JL
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> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Dan Nussbaum <yekkey at aol.com> wrote:
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> > And you know what they say about theories.
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> > What?
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> > Dan Nussbaum=20

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