# I'm just a fart machine! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-a-fart-machine/466869 "2008-10-07T17:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-a-fart-machine/466869/21 "2008-10-10T04:51:00Z")
When I was in boot camp I had a very bad cold and was sent to the naval hospital in San Diego in case pneumonia was developing. An X-ray was taken and a puzzled technician asked me if I had ever had surgery on my large intestine. I said I had not, and he pointed out what he thought was scar tissue in the X-ray, an object about the size of a baked potato. Stumped as to what it was he asked a passing doctor his opinion. The doc glanced at it and said it was “A UBF. An UnBorn Fart.” I blamed it on the chow they served us. I failed to get a copy of that X-ray. I would have had it framed, I think. With a button sewn on it. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-a-fart-machine/466869/22 "2008-10-10T14:27:03Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > An X-ray was taken and a puzzled technician asked me if I had ever had surgery on my large intestine. I said I had not, and he pointed out what he thought was scar tissue in the X-ray, an object about the size of a baked potato. > > Stumped as to what it was he asked a passing doctor his opinion. The doc glanced at it and said it was “A UBF. An UnBorn Fart.” > > I blamed it on the chow they served us. I failed to get a copy of that X-ray. I would have had it framed, I think. With a button sewn on it. Dude! Seriously–an UnBorn Fart? That is too funny! I’m with you–I’d have framed it and hung it in the living room for people to puzzle over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-a-fart-machine/466869.md?page=1)