Cutting the cheese is an honorable
profession. Millions do it everyday.
The pro-active party often smiles.
Book: Who Cut the Cheese? -- A Cultural History of the Fast
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
1. An elephant releases enough methane in one day to drive a car 20 miles?
2. In 569 B.C. a rebel general's fast sounded the revolt that overthrew Egypt's king?
3. In 44 A.D. a fast in Jerusalem during Passover led to the deaths of 10,000 people?
4. In the 1890s a stage entertainer at the Moulin rouge name Le Petomane (The Fasting Man) became Paris' top-drawing performer by imitating bird calls, musical instruments, and his mother-in-law's whiny voice with his fasting?
5. Mark Twain wrote a scandalous one-act play about Queen Elizabet trying to sniff out who fasted in her court?
6. In 1607 a member of British Parliament cast a "nay" vote with a fast?
7. Aristophanes, Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, William Blake, Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac and other literary giants wrote about fasting?
The author and his critics toot their horns:
"This book doesn't amount to a hill of beans!"
"The author should've kept this one on the back burner!"
"A pocket of methane within the bowels of the publishing industry!"
"Certainly one book I don't plan on burying my nose in!"
"Wait'll the public gets wind of this!"
"A chronicle of life on the cutting edge!"
