re upthread Trump’s new nickname for Buttplug was posted...
Trump on Pete Buttigieg: ‘Alfred E. Neuman Cannot Become President of the United States’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/10/trump-on-pete-buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman-cannot-become-president-of-the-united-states/
Trump does not just throw out statements without some underpinning...“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,”
“cannot”
re MAD #2
http://mentalfloss.com/article/65069/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-mad
“Gaines thought it would be funny to offer a fictional biography of himself that detailed his father’s Communist leanings, his past as a dope dealer “near nursery schools,” and bouts of pyromania. “
also source of Spy vs Spy, a personal favorite, “ Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias was disenchanted with the regime under Fidel Castro when he began working on what would become “Spy vs. Spy.” Because Prohias’s other newspaper illustrations were critical of Castro, the Cuban government suspected him of working for the CIA. He wasn’t, but the perception had him worried harm might come to his co-workers. To get out of the situation, Prohias came to America in 1960. “
I read somewhere, long ago (where???), that Mad Magazine had spook ties, intentions...
MAD Magazine always had the tri-fold back cover that held a secret message when folded properly. Spy tradecraft!!!
At Wednesday’s rally 45 pronounced Mayor Pete’s last name as Butt-edge-edge.
The etymology dictionary had this
Butt-”posterior, buttocks, rump,” from mid-15th century.
Edge-Old English “corner, edge, point”, also a “sword”
I also went and looked in the Vulgar Tongue Dictionary and found this:
Definition of Butt
BUTT. A dependant, poor relation, or simpleton, on whom
all kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who
serves as a butt for all the shafts of wit and ridicule.
Definition of edge
TO EDGE. To excite, stimulate, or provoke; or as it is vulgarly called, to egg a man on. Fall back, fall edge; i.e. let what will happen. Some derive to egg on, from the Latin word, AGE, AGE.