# The worst farts come from..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334 "2001-01-04T01:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/81 "2014-08-27T21:29:54Z")
Well, since the thread’s shambling around moaning for beer, cabbage, beans and BK onion rings, I may as well add something I discovered since the first time around. Breast milk produces the bar-none, worst farts ever in my 4 month old. He’s exclusively breast-fed, and his general MO is to cut loud, rank farts while breastfeeding. Which cracks me up, because my wife can’t flee, but me and my other son can. He’ll be all cute and snuggly and smiling at my wife while he eats, and then “Brraaap!” and out comes some sort of hellishly sulfurous rank fart. So much for the cute part! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/82 "2014-08-27T23:11:13Z")
Do you guys know the fat-blocker being sold as Ali now? Back in the 90s it was sold as prescription and was called Xenical. The deal was that you’d take it, eat a low-fat diet, it would block fat, and you’d lose weight. It did \*\*\*not \*\*\*come with a notice saying “Do not take Xenical and eat Mexican food after having a bunch of margaritas.” It should have. The next morning’s farts made my cat look horrified and run out of the room. My doctor was not sympathetic and actually literally LOL’d for a good 5 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/83 "2014-08-27T23:15:21Z")
Also of note, from the 14th edition of _The Merck Manual_ (which isn’t generally known for its rollicking sense of humour): > [@](#): > > Flatulence, which can cause great psychosocial distress, is unofficially described according to its salient characteristics: (1) the “slider” (crowded elevator type), which is released slowly and noiselessly, sometimes with devastating effect; (2) the open sphincter, or “pooh” type, which is said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic; (3) the staccato or drumbeat type, pleasantly passed in privacy; and (4) the “bark” type (described in a personal communication) is characterized by a sharp exclamatory eruption that effectively interrupts (and often concludes) conversation. Aromaticity is not a prominent feature. Rarely, this usually distressing symptom has been turned to advantage, as with a Frenchman referred to as “Le Petomane,” who became affluent as an effluent performer who played tunes with the gas from his rectum on the Moulin Rouge stage ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/84 "2014-08-28T03:09:48Z")
> [@blanx](#): > > Burger King Onion Rings… > > when I eat them, those around me question the existence of a just and loving God, who would permit such obscenity to be loosed upon the world. Ditto! ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/85 "2014-08-28T04:31:02Z")
I once made a capsicum soup. I boiled, fried, stewed, boiled again, baked, stewed and finally blended and strained those suckers until I had distilled them to the pure essence of capsicum. Which apparently, is capsaicin, carotene, and pure Fartarium (the most dangerous element in the universe). Not much happened, until I had a can of Coke later that same evening - the resultant JATO effect was responsible for re-closing the Hole in the Ozone Layer, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/86 "2014-08-28T16:07:21Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > …the undead. > > Zombie farts lingering around over a dozen years later. Oh my! Yep. Brains and decaying flesh will do it every time. ---
**Author:** ![OGLamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ebca7d/32.png) [@OGLamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OGLamp)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/87 "2016-03-22T04:44:50Z")
Necro post? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334/88 "2016-03-22T18:11:28Z")
> [@OGLamp](#): > > Necro post? You opened another fart thread. No need to start up this one too. I’m closing this. If all you have to contribute to the board are farts then I don’t think you will be here long. If not feel free to join other discussions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-farts-come-from/48334.md?page=4)