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

[Jonathan Lighter]

> How can anybody be so obtuse as to claim that there's no reason to
continue to read the work of dead white men?

To paraphrase most of my university students of years gone by:

"Because it's, like, boring?  And why don't they just use ordinary words
like today?"

That's how.

JL

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> quoted:
> > I have been a hundred
> > times upon the point of killing myself, but still I was fond of life.
> > This ridiculous weakness is, perhaps, one of the dangerous principles
> > implanted in our nature. For what can be more absurd than to persist in
> > carrying a burden of which we wish to be eased? to detest, and yet to
> > strive to preserve our existence? In a word, to caress the serpent that
> > devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our
> > hearts?
>
> Absolutely marvelous! How can anybody be so obtuse as to claim that
> there's no reason to continue to read the work of dead white men?
>
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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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