# Will Somebody Please Stop the Farting? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042 "2002-12-11T17:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Whitedove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Whitedove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitedove)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/181 "2002-12-21T07:55:18Z")
This is making me homesick for my father and his famous line, “Pull my finger!” I was a glutton for punishment, I’d pull it every time and laugh like a loon. ---
**Author:** ![Whitedove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Whitedove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitedove)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/182 "2002-12-22T07:20:33Z")
[http://www.ebaumsworld.com/fartfinger.shtml](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/fartfinger.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/183 "2002-12-22T09:25:34Z")
You know, I’ve been following this thread and laughing my ass off, never dreaming I’d ever have anything to contribute to it. Until I threw my back out at Wal-Mart yesterday morning trying to hold in a fart. My husband was very sympathetic, once he stopped giggling. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/184 "2002-12-22T23:44:48Z")
And just in case you didn’t have enough information yet: Visit [http://bored.com](http://bored.com) and scroll down to **Facts on Farts**. ---
**Author:** ![ladydisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/185 "2002-12-23T00:22:16Z")
This thread is bloody hilarious! My contribution: When my brother-in-law farts he’ll say “Did you hear what that a\*\*hole behind me just said?” Cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/186 "2002-12-23T05:33:11Z")
When the **Hawklette** was about three years old, I did some motherly thing that did not meet her approval. She shunned me in an obvious huff for some time. A little later, she ran back over to where I was sitting, and climbed up in my lap. “Awwww,” I thought. “She’s forgiven me, the little sweetheart.” Next thing I know, she has let one rip right into my lap and hopped down, saucily shooting the _coup de grace_ over her shoulder. “They never come off, y’know.” So apparently, I have still got this thirteen year old fart in my lap. Eww. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/187 "2002-12-23T20:33:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scout1222 \* > \*\*Diane - you’re awesome. \*\* Spoken like someone who did NOT share a hotel room and BED with this woman in Las Vegas. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/188 "2002-12-23T21:37:40Z")
Well, I didn’t say she smelled nice… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/189 "2002-12-23T23:00:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Zette- > Originally posted by scout1222 > **Diane - you’re awesome.** > [@](#): > > Spoken like someone who did NOT share a hotel room and BED with this woman in Las Vegas. Did she pull the tent trick on you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/190 "2002-12-24T04:29:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Bookstores to it to me. It’s like a Pavlov response. I walk into a bookstore and I immediately start sending out wafting puffs of putrefaction \*\* Weird. Just the other day a friend of mine was telling us how she always gets the urge to poop when she enters a bookstore. She insists that it’s something to do with the smell of the ink. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/191 "2002-12-24T05:05:15Z")
Comes from all that reading whilst on the hopper, that does. [sub]Sez the guy who mostly slept through two semsters of psychology classes.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/192 "2002-12-24T05:09:11Z")
That’s what I said! That it’s some kind of reverse response. One associates reading with pooping, because they always read while they poop. poop. poop. Sorry, I just wanted to say that another couple times. poop. ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/193 "2002-12-25T03:57:48Z")
WAIT! Don’t give up on this thread yet. I found out something interesting. I was discussing the urge to poop in bookstores with a friend, and he said that he’d read somewhere that humans, like dogs, have an instinct to defecate in corners, on the side of the road, basically anywhere there is “geometric organization.” So according to him, it is the shape and arrangement of all those bookcases that makes you want to drop a load. What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/194 "2002-12-25T04:39:27Z")
Hmmm…I dunno. I always thought it was the smell of the books that got one’s gastric juices flowing. ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/195 "2002-12-25T04:55:21Z")
Nope.That corner thing doesn’t sound right.While driving my seat is at a right angle with the door-no urge,either moving or sitting. Tho I sometimes have to suppress a quacker in the middle of a crowded elevator.Doesn’t happen in the corners all the time.I must confess,I’ve been known to drop a ripper on’em at times from the corner, looking for the crowd reaction to the inevitable-Who farted?Usually displayed in various facial expressions from the stifled giggle to genuinely annoyed. I have on occasion ,heard scattered applause,or right on bruthas.Have also seen other occupants in varying stages of consciousness from the effects of the vapor trail. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/196 "2002-12-25T15:47:27Z")
Remind me not to invite your friend into my house, **Kyomara**. My God! all of my rooms have _corners_! ::Rolls up newspaper:: Bad Kyomara’s Friend, Bad! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/197 "2002-12-25T20:55:48Z")
A few thousand Dopers are off having Christmas dinner now. I wonder where that will lead this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/198 "2002-12-25T21:49:47Z")
\*\* Muffin \*\* Member Registered: Nov 2000 Location: \*\* Thunder Bay,\*\* Ontario, Can How \* apropo \* ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/199 "2002-12-25T21:53:05Z")
I guess that does explain why it is not a white Christmas here. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042/200 "2002-12-26T23:52:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SparrowHawk \* > \*\*“They never come off, y’know.” \*\* BAHAHAHAHA! I love that story. What took you so long? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-somebody-please-stop-the-farting/142042.md?page=11)