Celebrities and farting- Page 13

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:23am

bway, you're might full of gas these days, no?

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:24am

We all know about Ben Franklin's inventions, anecdotes, and for being one of the founding fathers of our great nation. However, one of Franklin's lesser known -- but absolutely true-- experiments had to do with farts -- or as he called it "wind". Here is an excerpt from Frankin's letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels where he lays out his flatulent theories. Too bad this couldn't have been incorporated into 1776 in some way!

Permit me then humbly to propose one of that sort for your consideration, and through you, if you approve it, for the serious Enquiry of learned Physicians, Chemists, &c. of this enlightened Age. It is universally well known, That in digesting our common Food, there is created or produced in the Bowels of human Creatures, a great Quantity of Wind.

That the permitting this Air to escape and mix with the Atmosphere, is usually offensive to the Company, from the fetid Smell that accompanies it.

That all well-bred People therefore, to avoid giving such Offence, forcibly restrain the Efforts of Nature to discharge that Wind.

That so retain’d contrary to Nature, it not only gives frequently great present Pain, but occasions future Diseases, such as habitual Cholics, Ruptures, Tympanies, &c. often destructive of the Constitution, & sometimes of Life itself.

Were it not for the odiously offensive Smell accompanying such Escapes, polite People would probably be under no more Restraint in discharging such Wind in Company, than they are in spitting, or in blowing their Noses.

My Prize Question therefore should be, To discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix’d with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes.

Updated On: 6/9/06 at 10:24 AM

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:24am

"bway, you're might full of gas these days, no?"


Maybe we can harness it and use it to fuel our cars.

Updated On: 6/9/06 at 10:24 AM

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:27am

I am not a source of ethanol. Sorry to disappoint.
I'm fueled by Dr. Pepper.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:28am

Bway, I dont think enough research has been done to rule out cancer causing farts...

Katey Couric should look into it, so to speak.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:31am

Doodle, why don't you busy yourself with spitting out pea soup and spinning your head and whatnot?
There's a good girl.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:33am

Doodle is a girl?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:40am

Whaddd I do?

I simply think more research should be done!

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:43am

Well, Rathy, he IS a "big ol' girl" if nothing else.
You should know.
:-P

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:45am

I should know what?

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:52am

I think Miss Manners wants to weigh in:

Dear Miss Manners,

Let's say someone passes gas. They say, "Excuse me." Do you say, "You are excused"? My wife does this … I find it strange.

Gentle Reader,

Miss Manners has something even stranger for you: Etiquette's way of dealing with things that shouldn't happen is to pretend that they didn't.

So you—or, rather, that unfortunate "someone"—need not say, "Excuse me." And you are right that the response of "You are excused" has an unnecessarily imperious feel to it, as if you could equally well have refused.

Admittedly, the definition of things that shouldn't happen is arbitrary. Passing gas meets the definition, although, oddly enough, burping does not—unless you are doing it on purpose, in which case stop that this very minute.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:54am

Here some other famous farters throughout history..

1)Claudius, Roman Emperor (10BC - 54AD) who according to Suetonius, used to fart when addressing the Roman Senate. He passed a decree allowing everyone 'the Liberty of Relieving Themselves at Table of all Distentions Occasioned by Flatulence' after hearing how someone killed himself holding his gas in.

2)Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) farted as he bent to kiss the hand of Queen Elizabeth I at court. He was so embarrassed that he left England and travelled for 7 years. On his return, in the words of John Aubrey:"the Queen welcomed him home and say'd 'My Lord, I had forgot the fart'".

3)Sir Henry Ludlow, MP for Wiltshire in the Long Parliament in reply to a message brought from the House of Lords by the Serjeant-at-Arms in 1607 astonished the House of Commons by letting an enormous fart, that became so famous that Ben Jonson wrote an Epigram about it.

4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) used to fart a lot, as recorded in his letters. In his letters to his mother and cousin , Mozart gives details about his defacating and farting activities.

5) Joseph Pujol (1857-1945). The only man known to have earned a living by farting. For many years he entertained theater audiences by his flatulatory activities. His most famous trick was bending forward to let a fart that will blow out a candle.

6) Adolf Hitler is thought to have become a megalomaniac from constantly dosing himself with anti-flatulence pills.

7) Muammar Gadaffi, President of Libya. Well known for farting when being interviewed by Western media correspondents.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:54am

So if you fart or burp, you just ignore it???? I'm stunned.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:56am

Joseph Pujol obviously stole the career my brother was so desperately wishing to have.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:57am

I am just in awe of this thread! I have absolutely nothing to add to it, but I am in awe of it.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:58am

Rath, I think it depends on the function and the passer.

If it's Queen Beatrix during high tea, you ignore it.
If it's someone you hate at a really cool party, you draw attention to it and laugh.
If it's Bubba Dawkins during a NASCAR race, you applaud and compliment his execution.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:59am

You might also analyze the odor for taste, consistency, potency and thickness.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:00am

"6) Adolf Hitler is thought to have become a megalomaniac from constantly dosing himself with anti-flatulence pills."

And yet Beano is still on the market????

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:00am

One day I was walking down the street and felt the need to let one out. Of course, I looked behind me to make sure no one was within hearing distance. When I saw I was safe, I released it. However, the person walking way ahead in front of me heard it, and immediately turned around.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:02am

This also applies to Bubba's waste product during bathroom breaks. He'll be quite proud of his two-footer, so be sure to encourage him accordingly.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:15am

Okay, now we know why Qaddafi wore sunglasses.

Thank you Jane, for making me aware to never walk behind you.


And, this morning I did have an unpleasant odor on my way to work, and first wondered if someone had just walked their dog, or was one of the several people in front of me had putrified. I chose to blame it on the most attractive young girl most closely ahead of me.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:17am

AND, Elphaba, if you think we are going to buy that you have nothing to contribute because you dont fart, faggeddabboudit.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:24am

Doodle, that could so be a sociology experiment. You lock a bunch of people in the room and pipe a sulfur-type odor in there and see who gets blamed.

The title: "What type of people are considered most likely to fart in public?"

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:25am

Celebrities?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:26am

Okay...NEW REALITY SHOW!

Screw that Unanimous crap!

Calvin, you're a flippin' genious.