Its definitely funny for the Fart-er, but NOT for the Fart-ees!
Not at all.
This:
Oh well. At least half the room at the time disagreed with you, and I thought it quite funny myself.
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It’s not that all y’all don’t find farting funny (although I wouldn’t want to live in a world where farting isn’t funny), it’s the whole uptight about farting in general thing.
When my Dad (rest his soul) passed gas at the dinner table, it was of utmost importance that I not make eye contact with my younger brother.
We wondered sometimes if our father might have been doing this on purpose seeing which one of us would be the first to cave in…
This is a great thread! It makes me feel very nice and warm.
Like we’re a family or something. 
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Most of the time farts are funny. Not if I’m getting Dutch Ovened though. Then definitely not. Not funny at all. Me giving the Dutch Oven…hee-lar-ee-ous.
This is 90% of why farts are so funny.
In sixth grade, I had a teacher who would have our entire class cross our arms on our desks and put our heads down for a few minutes for excessive talking.
So one day the kid next to me farts. I looked at him, and he had a terrified look on his face. The teacher, thinking it was someone joking around, said, “Very funny, that will be another three minutes.”
Exactly!
I am picturing a tribe of cavemen sitting around a fire eating some T-Rex nuggets, and of 'em lets a ripper, it makes a funny sound and then the smell comes along!
Much laughter ensues and there you go: the reason most of us think farts are funny!
But back to the tribe…
“Hey guys! Did the fire just get a little brighter when that happened??? Come over here, Grogg!”
Quasi
Pretty much the apex of humor, as long as it’s in real life. On TV or in a movie, never funny at all.
Only in rare circumstances are farts funny. For example, when my grandson ripped one that was a surprise to him; the look on his face was funny.
Otherwise, not funny. But then I’ve never seen the humor in farts.
Guess I’m just an old fart.
Not very funny in real life. But when I see Terrance and Phillip rip one on South Park, I can’t help but smile.
Years ago, i was living in England and working as a waiter in a pretty upmarket country house hotel in the Lakes District.
One evening, i was working in the dining room serving dinner. It’s one of those places where men are supposed to wear a jacket and tie for the evening meal. It was mid-week, so we weren’t really busy. There were only about 7 or 8 couples, so we used the smaller dining room, which was more intimate, with only about 10 tables.
Anyway, it was the middle of dinner, everyone was happily eating their main course, and i made one of my regular passes through the dining room to check on how everything was going. I stood in the middle of the room, and surveyed the tables to make sure that everyone was OK, and that no-one needed their wine topping up or anything like that.
While i was standing there, a fairly substantial fart caught me completely unawares, and escaped before i could even summon the effort to prevent it. It was not a long, loud, drawn-out fart—more of a quick pop—but in the hushed atmosphere of the dining room i might as well have let off a howitzer.
I was absolutely mortified, but the famous stiff upper lip of the British upper class meant that, apart from a sudden drop in the conversation, not one of the guests gave the slightest indication that they had heard a thing. They just kept sawing away at their roast beef. I made a beeline for the kitchen, where i collapsed in an absolute fit of laughter. The chefs, who all appreciated scatological humor, laughed long and loud when i told them what had happened.
mhendo,
I can “see” that in my mind’s eye, and I would have been laughing right along with you!
I can “hear” that POP!
Was it one of those laughters where you laugh so hard you hurt in the pit of your stomach - because those are absolutely the best kind of laughs! When it’s inappropriate to do so - a fart in church, for example.
You know what I find comical?
When someone farts and then they make a sliding motion on the floor with their shoe.:rolleyes:
Yeah, right, pal.
That was a fart, not a damn shoe squeak!
Thanks for sharing!
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After the age of 5, they’re no longer funny. I know women who fart as much as men, and I find it just sophomoric and annoying.
I think it is because we are such verbally oriented creatures that farts are funny. A fart is noise being made from your ASS. Considering the taboos we have developed regarding defecation, it is not that far of a jump for a fart to become a sort of scatological middle ground. Not only does it have a taboo attachment, the noise is unpredictable, and humorous.
George Carlin: Farts are shit without the mess.
3
As the mother of a ten year old boy - farts as funny does get old. But sometimes they are still funny.
5 - A good fart at the right time can be sublimely funny. That’s part of the charm - only the experts can actually time their farts - the rest of us have to take them whenever they happen. God’s little reminder that we are all gasbags.
It’s one of those things that can’t be captured on well on film so I would give the best filmed fart (Blazing Saddles perhaps) maybe a 3. No fart is unfunny except, perhaps, to the innocent victims and even they can’t keep the smile off their face as they run from the room. The best fart is the most funny thing in the world.