Not to be outdone by Ennis, who's said that he thought this blog didn't have enough Farrelly Brothers style toilet humor and informed us all of the Colossal Colon Tour, I bring you -- Farts in the News!
First, via the robot filter, to which I am a sometime contributor: Dr. Fart speaks, an entertaining (and informative!) interview with Dr. Michael D. Levitt, the "world's leading authority on flatulence." However, I would take issue with the author's choice of "farts in the arts". While he mentions Aristophanes, Dante, and Hieronymus Bosch, how can he leave out The Miller's Tale?
Meanwhile, in Virginia, a Leeds man was detained at an airport when his novelty farting dog registered as a high explosive device by security. Good thing we can catch those novelty farting dogs, even if we can't stop college students from smuggling box cutters and plastic explosives PlayDoh on to planes. Unanswered in the news on this case: why would anyone want to buy a life-size farting dog in the first place?
I would also like to point out that I wrote this entire post without making one fart joke.
| Security | Toys | Dogs | Aristophanes | Dante | Chaucer |
Ah, yes, but avoiding a blatant fart joke isn't really much of an accomplishment. The word 'fart' itself is a wormhole to fifth grade recess and a trigger to the burned-in neural pathways of giddy snickering in our brains.
Comment #1 :: link :: October 29, 2003 09:00 AMThanks, Mike, for this burst of information.
It may have been silent, but at least it wasn't deadly.
[Huh-huh. Heh-heh-huh.]
