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unusual facts about Flatulence


The Million Dollar Goal

Dusk then tells about his grandmother, Sophie "Oma" Rosenberg, who apparently farts all the time and enters every contest she sees.


2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation

Even though flatulence was not the target of the bill, when responding to a journalist who inquired about the ban on flatulence in January 2011 on Capital Radio Malawi's popular Straight Talk program, George Chaponda, Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, agreed that the legislation can essentially be interpreted as a banning farting in public places and makes it an official criminal offence.

Bumbulum

It may be named due to its sound resembling that of a fart: Hemingstone cites this old Latin extract from the Liber Feodorum or Book of Fees.

Connex Melbourne

In mid-2005 Connex launched a print and TV advertising campaign featuring Humpty Dumpty and focusing on safety initiatives; the "Don't Hold Others Back" campaign of 2006 featured imagery of commuters struggling to board a train; and a 'train etiquette' campaign featuring fictitious character Martin Merton PhD, "the worlds #1 expert on train etiquette" offered advice to passengers on such topics as mobile phone use, flatulence and other low-level behavioural annoyances of train travel.

Fart lighting

In the 1999 episode "Spontaneous Combustion" of South Park, spontaneous human combustion is attributed to people's flatulence acting as the ignition.

Fart Proudly

"Fart Proudly" (also called "A Letter To A Royal Academy", and "To the Royal Academy of Farting") is the popular name of a "notorious essay" about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin circa 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.

George Chaponda

In February 2011, Chaponda said that a clause in the Local Courts bill making it a misdemeanor to "vitiate the atmosphere" would criminalize flatulence to "promote decency".

Ginger Cow

Cartman agrees to withhold this information, on condition that Kyle do everything that Cartman says, which includes indignities such insulting his own mother to her face, menial tasks and humiliating himself in public by allowing Cartman to fart in his face and announcing that he enjoys it.

Inocarpus fagifer

On Choiseul Island in the Solomons, a man who betrayed a tribal chief was suffocated by the flatulence produced as a result of the people around him eating the cooked kernels.

Whoopee cushion

A whoopee cushion, also known as a farting bag, poo-poo cushion and Razzberry Cushion, is a practical joke device, used in a form of flatulence humour, which produces a noise resembling a "raspberry" or human flatulence.


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