Here is an exclusive look at the version I could not publish in papers!

Okay, you have probably read the strip TWICE… or more… in an attempt to decide what is so taboo with this comic strip. The newspaper version has Flimp responding, “That would look pretty dumb if I wore it on my feet”. Newspaper editors are very cautious about certain words and particular situations. Basically, as a writer, I have to ask myself, “could I have said this, or had my characters do this, back in 1957?”

The word “butt” is a filthy word when used in a “super family-friendly world” of syndicated comic strips. The strip is SO much more funny as shown above. The newspaper version loses its bite when Flimp refers to his feet.

When I release the second treasury collection in May of 2020, Flimp will be saying “butt”. To be honest, there is nothing wrong with the “uncensored” version in this day and age. Newspapers are living in the past. Their core reader is around the age of 55 – 75 years old so their readers are more apt to be shocked by the word “butt”. I do not believe I have talked about “butts” this long in quite some time.

I mention from time to time that I am working my “butt” off… but even then I believe I refer to my butt as a “tail”… as in “I am working my “tail” off.

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