Unironically philosophical
Farts are universally funny. Like sex jokes, they transcend time and language.
In fact, the oldest joke we have discovered was a fart joke:
Something which has never occurred since time immemorial… A young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.
Compare that to a different joke from about 200 years later:
A dog entered into a tavern and said, 'I cannot see anything. I shall open this one
It doesn’t matter where or when you’re from, nor does it matter what language you speak, farts are funny and will continue to be funny forever.
I used perplexity to find some more ancient fart jokes
One example of an ancient fart joke can be found in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In the Miller’s Tale, two characters, Nicholas and Absalom, are competing for the same girl. Nicholas decides to humiliate his rival by waiting at the window for Absalom to beckon the girl. Just when he does, Nicholas lets out a fart with a noise as loud as a clap of thunder, almost overcoming Absalom with its force.
Another example from classical times appeared in “Apocolocyntosis” or “The Pumpkinification of Claudius,” a satire attributed to Seneca on the late Roman emperor. In this text, a character named Nicholas lets out a fart as great as a thunderclap, which almost blinds the person struck by it.
The medieval Latin joke book “Facetiae” by Poggio Bracciolini also includes six tales about farting, although the specific jokes are not detailed in the search results
I’m assuming the bread pumpernickel which literally means “farting Nicholas” must be related to these jokes. Why does Nicholas always fart?
If I find your farts funny then I’m scaling the current level of joy per fart. We can have an import / export scheme. My gross domestic product is outrageous.
Fart Vandalay.
Are you suggesting something like the tin cans with a string in the middle, but replacing the string with a hose. We’re gonna need some government subsidies on our farts because eventually one of us is going to overproduce and kill the other in a horrific explosion.
… Fart-splosion? What a way to go.
Shit Emily, that’s deep.
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There he is! Come on, angry mob, let’s all fart on this heathen!
I read this while farting.
