The reason I put in "a- err... butt!" was because... well now, I'm really not sure.

You see, I didn't start putting any sort of curse words on my papers until my first semester English class the following year, when I would write the now infamous "Beatnik Essay". So at this point, I had to keep it clean.

I'm assuming that the way I reasoned that that would be a good thing to throw in there would be to make him sound a little more tough. You see, it's hard to sound any kind of badass these days while still telling people to "kiss my butt". Ass has become more of a passive word, lately. Nobody cares if you say it. It's only a small bit worse than hell and damn.

But I still couldn't just outright say "ass" on my huge English project that would probably determine whether or not I ended up passing the class. And I couldn't just have him sound all wussy with "butt", either. So I made it look like he wanted to say "ass", while at the same time restraining himself for the purposes of my grade.

I think it actually worked pretty well. Nobody seemed to notice and/or care.