[bedolido]

A fart is a combination of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide) that travels from a person's stomach to their anus. When a person swallows too much air or eats foods that the human digestive system cannot digest easily gas becomes trapped in his/her stomach. The only way for this excess gas to exit the body is through the anus.

The gas that makes your farts stink is the hydrogen sulfide gas. This gas contains sulfur which causes farts to have a smelly odor. The more sulfur rich your diet, the more your farts will stink. Some foods that cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and eggs.

A scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatulence.

The word fart is just one of many different terms used to describe the release of gasses from the human body. Other popular names for farts or farting include: gassers, stinkers, air biscuits, bombers, barking spiders, rotten eggs, and wet ones. You can pass gas, break wind, blast, beef, poof, rip one, let one fly, step on a duck, and cut the cheese.

Farts can be stinky, wet, loud, or silent but deadly. Pee-eeew!!!

Did you know?
On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
Hey guys, don't be fooled by girls who tell you that they never fart. Everyone farts, including girls. In fact, females fart just as much as males.
Many animals fart too. Cats, dogs, and cows. Elephants fart the most.
People fart the most in their sleep.
Farts that contain a large amount of methane & hydrogen can be flammable.

[Hatteras]

You forgot the 'one-cheek sneak'.

[AngryJawa]

"The gas that makes your farts stink is the hydrogen sulfide gas."

Dammit! Now the mystique is gone!

[ctlpdad]

we call em "bunts" or "WHO BUNTED" always followed closely by the "DADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE".

I like the phrase "dry as a popcorn fart" or aftereating really hot food saying "it was so hot i'm fartin sparks!"

[BraveMan]

Dr. Michael Levitt, a Minneapolis gastroenterologist who is probably the world's leading expert on flatulence, tells of a somewhat gassy patient who was having a rectal polyp cauterized one day and unexpectedly exploded on the operating table.

An electric spark caused the hydrogen in the patient's bowels to detonate, blasting the surgeon backwards against the wall and slamming the patient's head into the table. The explosion also ripped a six-inch hole in the patient's large intestine. Luckily, they were able to sew him up OK and the poor guy recovered.

[Big Mack]

You should make this post availialbe to the government after they pay you a huge grant for the study.

[danmar]

Some foods that cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and eggs.

No kiddin', did you ever loose one after you ate eggsalad with corn, washed down with beer? OMG the stinking wall paper was coming off, not to mention my wife used 3 cans of Lysol to sanitize the house!

[lepton]

Other popular names for farts or farting include: [...] wet ones.

Ummm. I think that's a different but related phenomenon.

[okie01]

Free Republic is a compendium of knowledge.

No matter the subject of a thread, there is always somebody in the forum who is a practicing expert...

[thesummerwind]

On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.

Oh no! I'm overhealthy, and so is my wife and .........!

[thesummerwind]

People fart the most in their sleep.

-- insomniacs must be very uncomfortable.

[Louisiana]

Did you say the whale cut the cheese?

[flair2000]

On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.

Take those 16 farts/day, multiply by 120 for an attack sub crew sub crew, that gives you 1920 farts per day. Assume the ship stays submerged for three months, and you get 172,800 farts/deployment. The air in every breath you take underway at some point or another came out someone's posterior. (Yes, it eventually goes through the scrubbers and burners, but it's was always an interesting fact to ponder back in the day).

[stripes1776]

When a person swallows too much air or eats foods that the human digestive system cannot digest easily gas become trapped in his/her stomach.

When I was in grade school, I saw "Gone With the Wind" for the first time. I was puzzled when Scarlet excused herself during a party because she had a case of the vapors. At the time I thought it must be some exotic disease that only beautiful southern women come down with.

At least now I know what the title of the movie was really talking about.

[hoagy62]

"People fart the most in their sleep."

What's really bad is when your farts are so rank you can smell them in your sleep. That's happened to me a few times. You dream with this horrid stench in your dream, then you wake up...and realize the stench was no dream..more like a nightmare.

I can only imagine what a whale fart smells like. Hopefully, I will never know.

[My back yard]

Other popular names for farts or farting include: gassers, stinkers, ...

Ok, so, in TTT when Sam refers to Gollum as a 'stinker', he means?