Ok so this topic is a little away from the norm.......
but then again so am I
The word fart comes from the Old English term foertan, to explode.
Foertan is also the orgin of the word petard, an early type of bomb.
Petard, in turn, is the orgin of a more obscure term for fart--- ped, or pet, which was once used by military men.
NOTABLE FARTERS.......
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Le Patomane, a 19th-century music hall performer, had the singular ability to control his farts.
He could paly tunes, as well as imitate animal and machinery sounds rectally.
Joseph Stalin was afraid of farting in public. He kept a glasses and a water pitcher on his desk so that if he felt a wind coming on, he could mask the sound by clicking the glasses while pouring the water.
Martin Luther believed, "on the basis of personal experience, that farts could scare off Satan himself"
A computer factory in England, built on the site of a 19-century chapel, is reportedly inhabited by a farting ghost. Workers think it might be the embarrassed spirit of a girl who farted while singing in church.
"On several occasions", said an employee
"there has been a faint girlish voice singing faint hymns, followed by a loud raspberry sound and then a deathly hush"
"Raspberry sound"
but then again so am I

The word fart comes from the Old English term foertan, to explode.
Foertan is also the orgin of the word petard, an early type of bomb.
Petard, in turn, is the orgin of a more obscure term for fart--- ped, or pet, which was once used by military men.
NOTABLE FARTERS.......
Gatorbait

Le Patomane, a 19th-century music hall performer, had the singular ability to control his farts.
He could paly tunes, as well as imitate animal and machinery sounds rectally.
Joseph Stalin was afraid of farting in public. He kept a glasses and a water pitcher on his desk so that if he felt a wind coming on, he could mask the sound by clicking the glasses while pouring the water.
Martin Luther believed, "on the basis of personal experience, that farts could scare off Satan himself"
A computer factory in England, built on the site of a 19-century chapel, is reportedly inhabited by a farting ghost. Workers think it might be the embarrassed spirit of a girl who farted while singing in church.
"On several occasions", said an employee
"there has been a faint girlish voice singing faint hymns, followed by a loud raspberry sound and then a deathly hush"
"Raspberry sound"
