Tap that bunghole!

Let's talk about butts.  

Ugh!  Not that kind of butt!  I was thinking more along the lines of scuttlebutts. 

Not the nattering nosy-parkers that hang around the office cooler gossipmongering like a clutch of free-range blatherers.  I couldn't care less about who is doing what to whom or about such & such and so & so involving you know what.  I never get involved in that kind of scuttlebutt. I mean really, who cares?

Well, I do!  Not so much about the gossip but more about the scuttlebutt.

What in the heck is a scuttlebutt? I've heard a butt scuttle but . . .

I digress.


A scuttle is a small opening and a butt is a large cask.  Combine the two and you have a small hole cut into a cask to allow a cold refreshing liquid to issue forth and, well, refresh you.  A scuttlebutt, as it were.










And then there's the bunghole.  Ugh!  Not that kind of bunghole. What is wrong with you people??

Probably the same thing that is wrong with me.  I know what my idea of a bunghole was.  Think:

“I am the Great Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole” 

Thanks to Beavis and Butthead, that's what a lot of people think of when they hear the word 'bunghole'. 

In actuality, a bunghole really is related to butts.  Scuttlebutts, that is. A bung is a stopper, often a cork plug.  Basically, you shove the bung in the scuttle to keep the butt from leaking.

Everyone knows how crappy a leaky butt is!

















If it's any comfort.  We're not the only ones with our minds in the toilet - the terms bung and bunghole have been used as slang for anus since the 13th century.