# Fart proudly

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fart-proudly/774262>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fart-proudly/774262 "2016-12-09T09:57:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![toefungus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@toefungus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toefungus)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fart-proudly/774262/1 "2016-12-09T09:57:00Z")

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For a minute I though you were going to reference Benjamin Franklyn’s treatise on farting:

> **[Fart Proudly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_Proudly)**
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> "Fart Proudly" (also called "A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting", and "To the Royal Academy of Farting") is the popular name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France. It is an example of flatulence humor.
> "A Letter to a Royal Academy" was composed in response to a call for scientific papers from the Royal Academy of Brussels. Franklin believed that the various academic societies in Europe were incre...