Celebrities and farting- Page 19

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/10/06 at 3:34pm

I found this nice top 10 list that I thought might be appropriate here:

Why Farting is better than Sex
1. You can fart anytime, at will, even in public.
2. You can fart alone, just as enjoyably as with a significant other.
3. You don't need to shower before farting.
4. You can almost always have multiple farts.
5. A guy can fart, and be ready to fart again immediately.
6. A girl doesn't need to/can't fake a fart.
7. You can't get pregnant/aids from farting.
8. You can share a good fart with a whole roomful of people without having to actually touch any of them...
9. There's no need to wait for a guy to get an erection before he can fart.
10. After you fart, your girlfriend is not likely to ask you the dreaded question: "You mean, that's IT?!"

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 6:42am

Bumping this because I missed out the first time around. (One of the rare times I put work before pleasure.)

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 5:55pm

I don't know if this was in the previous 450 something posts, but Alan Jay Lerner talks about Rex Harrison farting onstage during MY FAIR LADY, right before his line "My manners are the same as Colonel Pickering's."

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 5:57pm

I read that in his book. ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE, I think it's called.

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 5:58pm

Yup, that's where I read it too.

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 6:18pm

l Updated On: 7/23/07 at 06:18 PM

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 6:21pm

So even going that far back...

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 6:49pm

o Updated On: 7/24/07 at 06:49 PM

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 10:06pm

I posted this on page #13 of this thread (if anyone is checking) but thought I would re-post again so you don't have to go back an re-read. I have even added a few new ones...

Some 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.

8. Flavius Josephus reports in "The Wars of the Jews" that a Roman soldier raised his clothes and farted at the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This profane act so enraged the Jews that it caused a riot, during which many thousands were killed.

9) Charles Darwin, scientist and originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection, was severely troubled by flatulence in his later years.

10) In Dante's "Divine Comedy", the last line of Inferno Chapter XXI reads: ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta ("and he made a trumpet of his buttocks"), in the last example the use of this natural body function underlined a demoniac condition.

11) Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau was (and still is by those who remember him) referred to in Quebec as "petit pét", or "little fart" because of his initials (PET - a conjugation of the french verb meaning "to fart"). This could be considered a mildly affectionate or highly derogatory nickname, depending on the tone. Those who enjoy a bilingual pun also note that this usage gives new meaning to having a pet name for someone.

On a side note...I once knew a frenchman who laughed everytime he saw PET brand milk at the grocery store

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 10:16pm

In honor of this thread, I have decided to post one of the greatest photographs of our time. Look upon it and be awed.

It would also make a great avatar.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:23am

This thread is hilarious and Enjorlas you have made my night!