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When i was a young boy in the 1960's my dad taught us kids a little saying that he learned in the 1940s. There was a snappy little poem which made reference to presidential cantidate Wendle Willkie and the campain buttons that his supporters handed out. The poem went like this: "Mary had a little lamb, its leg was made of mutton, every time it would lift its tail you'd see a Willkie Button." So, any time prim & proper mom and dad needed to make reference to an anus, they would light heartedly say 'willkie button'.
When I was a youngster 50+ years ago, up in New Jersey, there was a saying, "What Do You Want? A Wilkie Button".
I think it was a sarcastic remark pointed at folks who were too big for their britches and needed to have a positive sounding remark, but the truth was they needed to be humbled.
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Frank Floding
I always thought that it was the equivalent to today's RINO term since Wilkie
claimed to be a Republican but supported leftist ideas.
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