OK, define "asshat".

[trof]

And tell me where the term comes from.

I get the general idea, but I want the specifics.
Thank you.

[Fenris]

1. ...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asshat&r=f

[trof]

8. Thenkew, Fenris. Succinct and to the point.

Of course I've known the "head up his ass" description since my earliest days in the military.
I never made the connection between that and literally wearing your ass as a hat.
Many thanks.

[Fenris]

10. It's a relatively new term.

It's caught on thanks to the internets.

[underpants]

13. Fenris I am sorry but I can't see anything on that link

Any technical help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

[Fenris]

14. Hmmm....do you have any WD-40 lying around?

[TheMightyFavog]

2. I think Fark was essential in the proliferation of the term.

Anyway, it's the first place that I saw it.

[CO Liberal]

3. Examples of Famous Asshats

Zell Miller

Bob Barr

Bill O'Reilly

Robert Novaks

Sean Hannity

Rush Limbaugh

Michael Savage

* * * * * *

OK??

[trotsky]

4. Try the OFFICIAL site.

http://www.confusednation.com/asshat/

[trof]

9. You get second prize for "Most Verbose".

;-)

[DS1]

5. This grinning git right here

[Fenris]

6. I thought he was the definition of "tampon"

[evlbstrd]

7. Cotton-headed

with a string up his ass?

[DS1]

11. With a touch of Irish on top

:D

[evlbstrd]

12. Whoa, don't be dissin' the Irish!

We saved civilization. The question is, was it worth it?

[DS1]

15. How did you save civilization?

Was it the wedding day drunken brawls or the funeral drunken brawls?

:D

[evlbstrd]

16. Those came later.

And you left out the Birthday party and Baptism brawls.

C'mon, it was the monks in the 6th century, busily copying manuscripts while continental Europe went to hell in a handbasket.
Yay, Patrick!