Slug, Tunguska and Buttocks

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Include me among the people who don’t always get the artwork that accompanies Cecil’s columns. F’instance, Slug’s drawing for What caused the massive 1908 explosion in Tunguska, Siberia?

It shows a hole that might suggest a meteorite crater. So far, so good. It also has a flying saucer (?) And the saucer is apparently shooting an excavator in the buttocks with a death ray (?)
Of special note, is that this death ray has caused the man’s buttocks to jump out of his pants with a sound effect that is either “poom” or, from the flying saucer’s viewpoint, “wood.”

I read the column looking for some reference to something that would make you (something) “your ass off.” I’m not finding it.

But a distant memory seems to recall an odd, foreign word for the buttocks – something like katunkas. Is there such a word? Is Slug reaching for some pun between Tunguska and katunkas, or what is going on here, anyways?

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(either everyone is as mystified as I am about that pitcher, or people thought this thread was about a law firm.)

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Cecil mentions UFO’s in the column. Maybe the buttocks is a reference to asteroids.

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Cecil mentions “an extraterrestrial laser beam” as one of the crackpot explanations for the blast. QED.

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My guess is that Slug made a leap from “The Tungus Event” to “tuchus.” Tuchus is a Yiddish word, which I’ve probably spelled badly, for buttocks. So the mighty Slug has shown us The Tuchus Event.;j

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Could be, but it was the Tunguska event.
I did find some references to katungus. Maybe Slug doesn’t know his tuchus/katungus from a hole in the ground?