# Passing Gas is now a bloody offense? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661 "2015-01-12T22:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/21 "2015-01-13T00:47:56Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > You think that’s wrong, try to explain where she got the metal stool. …metal “stool”… Very good. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/22 "2015-01-13T01:51:29Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > Reminds one of the joke a mommy was trying to enroll her daughter in school and wrote the kids name was La-a. “How do you pronounce that La ah?” asked the registrar? “No it is Ladasha! The dash isn’t silent!” That’s a long-standing urban legend. It generally emphasizes the race and socioeconomic status of the mother, and always ends with “the dash don’t be silent” in order to hammer the point home. A similar legend focuses on two twin brothers named “Orangejello” and “Lemonjello” because their (black, low income, but you probably guessed that) mom was too stupid to come up with a name. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/23 "2015-01-13T01:59:28Z")
After a man farting at the dinner table, an offended man asks, “How dare you fart in front of my wife”. To which the man who farted responded, “Sorry, didn’t realize it was her turn.” ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/24 "2015-01-13T02:39:37Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > That’s a long-standing urban legend. It generally emphasizes the race and socioeconomic status of the mother, and always ends with “the dash don’t be silent” in order to hammer the point home. A similar legend focuses on two twin brothers named “Orangejello” and “Lemonjello” because their (black, low income, but you probably guessed that) mom was too stupid to come up with a name. There are similar urban legends about (lower-socio-economic-status) women naming her baby after something mom read in her medical chart. The punchline is that the kid’s name is Chlamydia. Electronic medical records pretty much kill this joke dead. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/25 "2015-01-13T02:52:05Z")
That must have been one really, really toxic fart. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/26 "2015-01-13T02:56:56Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FWBUl7oT9sA/hqdefault.jpg "I Fart In Your General Direction!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA) ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/27 "2015-01-13T02:58:45Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > Have you ever seen a movie star with the name, Lokeesha? or Tambatheenaplutz? > > It’s just too much to handle. You just know that kid is gonna get beaten up many times by her classmates and wind up in jail or in prison. > > Why would any parents ever do that to a kid? > > Very sad commentary on today’s parents. I am sure people cracked the same misguided jokes about Condoleezza but she is highly successful. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/28 "2015-01-13T03:28:08Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > [Submitted without comment.](http://mommyslittlesunshine.blogspot.com/2012/01/29-weeks.html) These were the names that didn’t make the cut. > [@](#): > > Taylee > McKarty > Nayvie > Maylee > Kamree > Nykee > Taislee > Taigley > Tenley > McKamey > McKartnee > Tayvie For the love of all things holy, why? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/29 "2015-01-13T03:49:54Z")
There are stories going around about a mother who wanted to name her daughter “As’sholey” spelled “Asshole”. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/30 "2015-01-13T06:11:02Z")
My daughter read the list of discarded names and thanked me for not giving her any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/31 "2015-01-13T06:21:51Z")
[Little Bobby Tables](http://xkcd.com/327/). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/32 "2015-01-13T06:50:44Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > It’s just too much to handle. You just know that kid is gonna get beaten up many times by her classmates and wind up in jail or in prison. Well, the parents named her that so she would grow up strong. But, couldn’t they accomplish that by simply naming her Sue? ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/33 "2015-01-13T07:18:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Little Bobby Tables](http://xkcd.com/327/). XKCD always has something relevant, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![vomit\_comet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/73ab20/32.png) [@vomit\_comet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vomit_comet)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/34 "2015-01-13T11:43:17Z")
[It probably didn’t smell like chocolate…](http://www.pilulepet.com/en/15-pilule-qui-parfume-les-flatulences.html) ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/35 "2015-01-13T12:12:46Z")
I suppose it depends on what the farter had been eating recently… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/36 "2015-01-13T14:54:39Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’d speculate the girl is psychologically disturbed. Attacking someone with a metal chair is extreme. No doubt she will eventually attack someone and kill them. She seems to have no control of her temper. > > I hope this case results in court ordered anger management classes. I seriously doubt this is the first time this boy did something to this girl. I’m sure harassment has been ongoing. But let’s make fun of her name some more! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/37 "2015-01-13T15:30:33Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I seriously doubt this is the first time this boy did something to this girl. I’m sure harassment has been ongoing. > > But let’s make fun of her name some more! Thanks, glad the thread finally made it here before I had to say it. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/38 "2015-01-13T15:40:55Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I’m not surprised she has a chip on her shoulder, being saddled with that “Joquasha” moniker. It sounds unusual, but it may be nothing more than a variation on “Jocasta.” Although one then has to wonder whether the inspiration was classical myth or Marvel comics. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/39 "2015-01-13T15:58:49Z")
Is this a “straw that broke the camel’s back” situation of provocation? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-gas-is-now-a-bloody-offense/709661/40 "2015-01-13T16:05:11Z")
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