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

[Charles C Doyle]

Or, to secure the rhyme:, "'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own."

--Charlie

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Another criterion, to judge from our collection, is concavity.

And of course they needn't be body parts at all; we could cite alienable but ubiquitous possessions.  I've always liked this line from Pope, which is nicely adaptable to (though presumably not designed for) the non-idiosyncracy of grammaticality judgments:

'Tis with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

LH

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