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How a Fart Killed 10,000 People
The Daily Beast ^ | December 4, 2016 | Candida Moss

Posted on 11/18/2017 9:03:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Don’t forget Chaucer.


41 posted on 11/19/2017 12:24:40 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Daily Beast. Isn’t that the extreme far left wacko rag where they snort a pound of coke and mainline a gallon of heroin in the morning just to start their shift?

Yeah; gonna get a lot of clear thinking journalism from them alright.


42 posted on 11/19/2017 1:15:29 AM PST by Boomer (TisOK2BWhite)
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To: Eagles6
A former girlfriend walked into the room and said "Eww...did you fart?"

"Of course I farted! Do you think I smell like this all the time!?"

43 posted on 11/19/2017 1:50:44 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Trivia.

We all have heard the phrase "to be hoist by one's own petard." A petard was a small bomb, so it's just blowing yourself up with your own weaponry. But the word "petard" comes from the French and means to flatulate. Gives a much more graphic image to the phrase.

Another favorite is a very short poem by Frost called the Span of Life:

"The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
"I can remember when he was a pup."

Thus endeth the trivia session.

44 posted on 11/19/2017 2:56:50 AM PST by dorothy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The older print version of the Medical Merck Manual has one editor having at it about the passing of gas.

He attempts to name all the kinds of farts from the “elevator-clearing” ones on toe the more sneaky ones.

Funny for a student to find in the middle of the dry dull work of studies.


45 posted on 11/19/2017 3:04:02 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/12/police-end-interview-after-suspect-wont-stop-farting-7072745/

It's a special kind of talent to be able fart on command....

Police in Kansas were forced to stop an interrogation in September – because the suspect wouldn’t stop farting. Sean Sykes Jnr was taken in for questioning over gun and drug charges but cops had to end the interview early due to his flatulence. Local newspaper the Kansas City Star reported that Sykes ‘leaned to one side of his chair and released a loud fart’ when asked his address. Detectives wrote: ‘Mr. Sykes continued to be flatulent and I ended the interview.......

46 posted on 11/19/2017 4:08:56 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My daughter called farts “beeps”, as in “I beeped again, Dad”. Cute and easily disguised in normal conversation.


47 posted on 11/19/2017 4:20:30 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Blue Hue with a Brown Core.


48 posted on 11/19/2017 5:37:51 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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49 posted on 11/19/2017 6:40:47 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'll admit it; I first read Chaucer's Canturbury Tales at age 11 without it being assigned in school—because of the fart jokes.
50 posted on 11/19/2017 6:50:24 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Joseph Pujol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane


51 posted on 11/19/2017 6:50:33 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Arguably the most successful comedic purveyor of fart jokes, however, was Roland le Sarcere

Ummm - hello - George Carlin? Duh

52 posted on 11/19/2017 6:58:33 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My Mother-in-law could make some of the best chili with beans! But the next day the pain would double you over, and the pressure so great the gas was coming out! Anyone within 100 feet got a dose of gas which would gag a maggot.

It would have worked wonders in the trenches of WW I.

Never ate her chili again. But it WAS good.


53 posted on 11/19/2017 8:01:08 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/toot


54 posted on 11/19/2017 9:39:20 AM PST by TexasBarak (I aim to misbehave!)
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To: jiggyboy

;-)


55 posted on 11/19/2017 7:24:13 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: eldoradude

There once was a man named Fukutomi...


56 posted on 11/19/2017 8:08:19 PM PST by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I see your voice has changed, but your breath is still the same...


57 posted on 11/20/2017 1:50:11 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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