On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:43:38PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:09 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > Gee thanks. Now how do I get this arrow out of my butt? > > > > Ob.Trivia - did you know that archery targets are called 'butts'? > > Do you know why? > > I knew that they were, but I still don't know why. > > Godfrey
It was a sort of trick question. There's a fairly widespread faux etymology that claims it's derived from using the end of wine barrels as targets, but the OED gives no credence to this. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
