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