[Clive]

Sounds like someone had some money left over in his budget at the end of the fiscal year and did not want to hand it back in to the consolidated revenue fund lest his budget be reduced accordingly next fiscal year.

:-)

[Clive]

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[Inge_CAV]

"Australian scientists are trying to work out why kangaroos don't fart as often as sheep and cattle."

Wonder when these guys will discover that cats, dogs and horses fart too.........

[Victor]

Greenhouse gas from livestock? What about the 3 Billion or so people living on the planet....

Al Gore, check your messages.....

[Robert Drobot]

Lurking in the shadows, I suspect the EPA secretly financed this study intending to get the 'jump' on capturing and marketing K-GAS as ENRUN - "America's all gas, hot air energy source".

[IGNATIUS]

There was a Chicago dentist who reportedly achieved some measure of fame as an expert and celebrated after dinner speaker(Kiwannis Clubs,etc) upon the subject of crepitation.

According to a Denver newspaper article(as I recollect)--his independant research had determined that the daily worldwide aggregate of human farts was sufficient to inflate 2.37 Goodyear blimps!

[Clive]

Oz can't claim all the credit.

Our own David Suzuki raised the issue of the environmental issue of flatulent cattle several years ago.

He deserves at least a footnote in the final report.

[cavador]

The answer is simple:Roos mostly only eat grass.

Sheep have their diets supplimented with hay(lucerne)and their fleece is very thick with retains body heat and causes their stomach contents to ferment quickly.

[lavaroise]

Socialists wonder why people fart, while they tell us to shut up when we mention their hot air and flatulences in Monica and Bill's White House. It's all about being sinless scientists and this New Age of stupidity. These kinds of hypocritical things make big money these days at an Inquisition liberal art University near you.

[Reaganesque]

My question is: Who's the desperately lonely soul who first made this "discovery" and shouldn't he/she be under strict medical supervision?

[NMC EXP]

It is simple.....the roos suscribe to the philosophy of "why fart and waste it, when you can belch and taste it."

Regards

J.R.

[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

"Government scientists are investigating..."

I'll bet we all guessed that as soon as we read the headline.

[Cacique]

They should have been studying politicians. especially democrap ones. Considering they are so full of sh*t and hot air, they probably produce more flatulence in Washington than the rest of the planet combined.

[MrNeutron1962]

Maybe Kangaroo's have better manners than Sheep.

[metesky]

The head of the investigative team said, "Mmphh mmm mphhmms."

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for the post. I'll remember to sit next to the 'roo and not the sheep on the bus.

[Don Myers]

Scientists ponder why kangaroos fart less than sheep

It would take a scientist to even know this. And, I don't mean that as a compliment.

[mc5cents]

Since we are on the subject, if you have never heard it The Great Crepitation Contest is very funny. It's the story of Lord Windeschmere, an Englishman, the World Champion Crepitator being challenged by Paul Boomer from the good ole U.S. of A. who has practiced by eating the beans at all the truck stops on his route.

Here is a excerpt from it Crepitation wave

[CholeraJoe]

Sheep ping.

[Dog Gone]

it will mean a reduction in the 60 million tonnes of gas emissions

I've never quite understood how fart emissions (or any other gas) could be measured in pounds.

Even a first-grader can tell you that farts float.

[DonQ]

I would suspect that diet is the principal reason for the difference. Although they both mostly graze, sheep get the priority for easy grasses, while kangaroos usually have to forage in somewhat tougher surroundings.