Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 03:10:00 -0800

From: SETH SKLAREY crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM

Subject: Re: cobbed



On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Bob Haas wrote:



Does this term allude to the pre-toilet-paper usage of corn cobs for

personal hygiene? If so, "cobbed" certainly has more flair than, say,

"getting really Sears catalogued." Hmm.



I always assumed that the meaning was cruder than 'toilet paper'--that it

had somethilng to do with the insertion of the cob into the anal canal.

But I read Faulkner's SANCTUARY (in which a charactger named "Popeye" uses

a corn cob as a tool for commiting a horrible rape) in

high school, and that may have affected my perception of the meaning

here--that and the commonplace Iowa expression "He walks like he has a cob

up his arse."



This coincides with the expression "getting cornholed." It has nothing to

do with corny jokes.



Seth