stormicide's butt

for my birthday, i received the "Collector's Edition" of The Incredibles from my sister, but didn't actually get it until this last weekend (about a month after my bd). if you haven't seen it, the animated film is awesome and very entertaining. the "Collector's Edition" comes with a second dvd with many deleted scenes, outtakes, interviews, etc. one of the features is an NSA vault that tells more about the different Supers "in their own words."

listening to the Stormicide (a female superhero) audio, she talks of her ability to "absorb and emit vapors of various properties", mentioning how she is many times the "butt of jokes" when she is described as "making gas". at first, i wasn't sure if she said butt or bud, but immediately following that, she comments (with laughter in the background) on how she says "butt" and "gas" in the same context. i did a quick search on google with "bud of jokes" and only got a count of 35; when i searched with "butt of jokes", i got a count of 34,300.

my question is, which is the eggcorn? bud of jokes seems to make sense: bud in the sense of producing, so the object which produces jokes is a bud of jokes. however, google (supposedly representing most people) seem to disagree. butt of jokes makes sense in terms of being the bottom or root of jokes. i looked at The Eggcorn Database and noticed the bud >> butt, but only to "nip in the bud/butt". this made me think even moreso that the original is bud, not butt;. I also a have "Longman's Dictionary of English Idioms", printed in the 1970's, but it doesn't mention either "butt of jokes" or "bud of jokes". does anyone else have a better understanding or more information about which is the eggcorn?

[Update: so I was talking with Kirk Boydston about this, and he thinks the eggcorn is "bud of all jokes" since intervocalic /t/ becomes a flap. He also suggested that "butt" as in "objective end" of all jokes. Apparently, I should have checked dictionary.com, since when I looked up "butt", the first definition of the third sense of the word is: One that serves as an object of ridicule or contempt: I was the butt of their jokes. Well, at least it looks like there is an eggcorn (since I got a count on Google) floating around that I need to mention over at The Eggcorn Database.]

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