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Passing gas 101: What your flatulence patterns mean for your health
Foxnews.com ^ | April 01, 2014 | By Loren Grush

Posted on 04/01/2014 10:52:40 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

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To: US Navy Vet
Or we could just turn it into sport! The Great Crepitation Contest
81 posted on 04/01/2014 1:34:23 PM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: GeronL
Save the fart in a bag labeled Fresh Mountain Air and sell it in Beijing

Now that is a coincidence. I was just looking at the thread on bags of 'fresh' mountain air for China, and had the very SAME thought.

I didn't post it because I couldn't figure out a good reason to hurt the Chinese any further than they are already hurting themselves.

Although... a bag of farts may be better than what they are breathing now.

82 posted on 04/01/2014 1:35:46 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

That could be true!


83 posted on 04/01/2014 1:38:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: mc5cents
Whoops. Here is a link.

The Great Crepitation Contest.

84 posted on 04/01/2014 1:39:25 PM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Sherman Logan
The two ideas are not necessarily contradictory.

Applied to the same subject they are.

It is likely vegetarians produce more gas and meat-eaters produce more potent gas.

Exactly. Two different subjects. Potency and Volume.

85 posted on 04/01/2014 1:39:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: zerosix
"According to Sheth, many red meats and protein contain high amounts of sulfur – so while herbivores may pass gas more often, flatus from meat eaters may smell much worse."

Thank you. I must have glossed over that.

Again, we have POTENCY VS. VOLUME.

Who will win ?

86 posted on 04/01/2014 1:44:07 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: crazycatlady
You must not have cats. Felines and wicker don’t mix.

It's rather than no cats are allowed on any chairs or expecially tables or countertops in our house. Don't worry; they have their own rug-perch houses, beds, scratchposts, fleece pads, baskets, cushions, afghans, window seats, towel-lined shelves, nooks'n'crannies, closet floors, cat doors, shrubbery, mint gardens, drooping trees, carpeted staircases, travel cages, quilts, laundry bins, bathmats, bathtub rims, kitchen mats, fireplaces, radiators, heat lamps, cardboard boxes, shopping bags, buckets, storage room, laundry room, tool room, guest room, hidey holes -- even a hole in the basement ceiling...


Speaking of cats and flatulence, my Maggie is 16 and seems to like to cuddle with her butt near my face at those times of tumultuous digestion

They're a trip, aren't they? I had an old male who, if I didn't get up out of bed to feed him promptly, would sit his butt right down on my face. Incentive.

87 posted on 04/01/2014 2:08:56 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: SgtHooper
“...average individual can pass gas anywhere from 13 to 21 times a day.”

Unadulterated nonsense. Anyone doing it that often in my home would be tossed out on their ass.

Double dog dare you to carry a notepad around with you tomorrow and start ticking 'em off. You may surprise yourself.

88 posted on 04/01/2014 2:10:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Organic Panic

Or a toxic narcissist, often the same thing.


89 posted on 04/01/2014 2:13:31 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: NorthMountain
At last! Someone else who has heard of Le Pétomane!

It's not exactly "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"; but I once met Le Pétomane's great-great-nephew in a workplace. He was a nice married guy, and was mortified when I asked him if he were related (same last name).

90 posted on 04/01/2014 2:21:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think she is the one trying to get more cruciform vegetables and stuff into the school lunches. Just saying. FLOTUS always reminds me if that word too. I do like the word cruciform though.


91 posted on 04/01/2014 2:22:35 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: US Navy Vet

Horses fart, men pass gas and women merely smile enigmatically.


92 posted on 04/01/2014 2:27:46 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: UCANSEE2; zerosix; Sherman Logan
"Again, we have POTENCY VS. VOLUME."

Who will win ?

Down at the School for the Deaf, it's the meat-eaters, every time.

93 posted on 04/01/2014 2:30:32 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: US Navy Vet

Blame it on the dog. :-)


94 posted on 04/01/2014 3:40:31 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: hoagy62

When our daughter was small, the wife was trying to teach her to say “excuse me” when passing gas, and never passed up an opportunity to impart this lesson.
One day during this period, I passed a bit of gas in the living room, making a tiny noise. She looked at me and said “What do you say?” (in the exact tone one would use with a small child). I thought for a moment, then replied “weak effort”. She tried to be angry- but it’s become a family joke to this day :)


95 posted on 04/01/2014 8:22:32 PM PDT by TexasBarak (I aim to misbehave!)
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To: 2111USMC

“I’m in a strange town and having lunch in a strange restaurant.
I’m LMAO so hard I think they’re going to throw me out!”


really? It’s not that funny.


96 posted on 04/02/2014 1:19:19 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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