BS: Illegal to fart in public

Subject: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 06:42 AM

Illegal to fart in public

I see residents in Malawi's financial capital Blantyre have reacted angrily at government attempts to criminalize farting in public, and rightly so.

The Local Courts Bill, to be introduced next week, reads: "Any person who vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour."

The bill will also deal with citizens who pretend to be fortune tellers.

As one local man said: "We can't allow this bill to go through. We all fart. Where do they think we could go and fart?"

A lady added, "We all fart in public and it will be difficult to tell who has done it. Some do it silently. It some cases it is like teargas which goes like shhhh! Our legislators need to concentrate on discussing development projects. It would make sense if they talked about defecating and urinating anyhow but not farting. This will not work. We will keep on farting." she said.

I do hope Joe doesn't ban "Hot Air" on this site, I would miss Richard Bridge's posts.

More on this story to be found here
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-4399-Row%20over%20Malawi%20farting%20ban%20bill/news.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 06:46 AM

Not to worry... If the banned flagilation here there would be no here...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: eddie1
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:04 AM

This is terrible!
I have been telling fortunes by farting for years - If I go there I could finish up in two seperate prisone at the same time!

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:27 AM

I suspect that Dickie Noir actually drafted that. Read it carefully.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:42 AM

No unbelievably genuine!

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-4399-Row%20over%20Malawi%20farting%20ban%20bill/news.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:48 AM

It would appear Hoff just dropped one Al.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 08:23 AM

A follow through could be a sticky area.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 08:28 AM

Sounds like someone stepped on a frog.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Acorn4
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 08:38 AM

Does that include the "Silent but Deadly" ones - I can see several complicated legal cases where there are arguments over the culprit - some people can, after all, throw their voices very skilfully.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 09:07 AM

The ones that wear house slippers are the worst.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 09:12 AM

'"Any person who vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour."'

Axe deodorant and some other scents designed for women make me want to throw up. They might be onto something here.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 09:18 AM

Guinness creates lethal farts.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 11:10 AM

Who says the proposed law has anything to do with farting?

The wording refers to something which " vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health [sic] of persons..."

There is no evidence that farting, while embarrassing, was ever bad for anybody's health. But the new law would prohibit harmful things like dumping chemicals, abandoning garbage, burning trash, etc.

It sounds to me like something we 'civilized' people expect without giving it a thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 11:16 AM

And smoking.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 11:18 AM

Answers to your questions here Leeneia,

http://www.nyasatimes.com/national/justice-minister-confirms-malawi-to-outlaw-farting.html

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 01:57 PM

Obviously the answer here lies in a compromise, and I would suggest the compulsory ignition of all extraneous bodily gases immediately upon exit in order to mitigate the noxious and/or merely malodorous effects thereof at the earliest opportunity. Failing that, the compulsory insertion of whistles may help to eliminate doubt in cases where the identity of the perpetrator is in dispute.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 02:09 PM

Very good Smokey, do you recall

"There was a young farter from Sparta,
A really magnificent farter,
On the strength of one bean
He'd fart "God Save the Queen",
And Beethovens Seventh Sonata.

He could whistle, could warble and hum,
By constricting the hole in his bum,
And make animal sounds,
Or fire artillery rounds,
With the force of a field cannon gun."

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 02:35 PM

Found this on the web.

What is motherless, fatherless,
Born without skin,
Spoke one word
And never spoke again?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 02:43 PM

Never mind Malawi. Farting just cost a dentist in England his job!!

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 02:47 PM

Farting just cost a dentist in England his job!!

He had no business trying to get a set of false teeth up his arse in the first place.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 04:51 PM

I presume this means that Spaw will not be allowed to visit Malawi in the foreseeable future?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 04:56 PM

Nor anywhere in fact.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 05:18 PM

Except Ohio. And they can't do anything about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 05:46 PM

Have a protest.

Plan ahead. Everyone eat a preparatory diet for a couple of days, then gather around a politician and have a fart-in!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 06:53 PM

A fart is just a little thing,
But often does it please,
It warms the bed on a chilly night,
And suffocates the fleas. [ anon ]

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:12 PM

From Wikipedia


Farting at will

Main article: Flatulist

Historical comment on the ability to fart at will is observed as early as St. Augustine's The City of God (5th century AD). Augustine mentions men who "have such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at will, so as to produce the effect of singing." The fact that mankind in general has lost this ability he attributes to the first sin of Adam and Eve and its consequences with respect to body control.[27] Intentional passing of gas and its use as entertainment for others appears to have been somewhat well-known in pre-modern Europe, according to mentions of it in medieval and later literature, including Rabelais.

Le Pétomane ("The Fartiste") was a famous French performer in the 19th century who, as well as many professional farters before him, did flatulence impressions and held shows. The performer Mr. Methane carries on Le Pétomane's tradition today. Also, a 2002 film Thunderpants revolves around a boy named Patrick Smash who has an ongoing flatulence problem since he was a newborn baby. He eventually overcame his problems and fulfilled his dreams including being an astronaut.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:22 PM

It's one thing to be able to fart whenever one wants to. I also have the ability to fart when I don't. I really hate the ones with lumps, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:23 PM

A treat if you've never seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evwLzR57wsc

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:24 PM

'Obviously the answer here lies in a compromise, and I would suggest the compulsory ignition of all extraneous bodily gases immediately upon exit'

Don't think so. There was this guy at at college called Pete, and Pete used to light his farts - usually with great success and to wild applause. However, on this one occasion, he did it full on - no underpants!

Well you can guess the rest. The inevitable ensued - Pete got blowback. All the hair on his bollocks was badly singed and we had to take him to hospital with internal burning. Pete said he could feel it in there, but the hospital was unsympathetic - it was late at night, you see, and to be honest - we all thought it was funny and were laughing like trains.

So go careful out there - as cat Stevens says, its a wild world.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 08:09 PM

I'm far too much a gentleman to even consider citing Jim Morrison or Johnny Cash at this point.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 10:04 PM

Let's be serious.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 03:03 AM

" My Prize Question therefore should be, To discover some Drug wholesome and not disagreeable, to be mix'd with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes."

From Joe F's link. Had me in stitches.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 04:35 AM

...and I would suggest the compulsory ignition of all extraneous bodily gases immediately upon exit'

Let you be warned! As an old CMS told me, when a young soldier in their 8 men sleeping room they enjoyed burning their farts after taps in their beds until one of them had to be brought to sick bay with his pyjamas bottom (and his, too) heavily burnt.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,alan Whittle
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 05:45 AM

Mind you, some people do abuse the privilege.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 07:14 AM

Just read this

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20110303/tuk-flatulent-dentist-faces-punishment-f-107bc4a.html

Sounds like the Basil Fawlty of the dental world. Loveable British eccenrtrics, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 07:55 AM

Well you can't hold what isn't in your hand.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 11:59 AM

Charcoal based underpant filters with acoustic wadding calculated for the appropriate frequency range - that'd do the trick.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 05:07 PM

Too many suicide bombers already. Please, you with an excess of gaseous substances, stay away from open flames. You will surely explode and, as Muhammad Ali prefers, return to gaseous clay!

(And maybe hurt others too._

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 05:18 PM

I love the bit about the dentist going through the wallet of a client to make sure he didn't have enough money to pay. And giving a V sign to the customers he didn't like.

And the nurse says - the whole surgery smelled horrible.

This guy deserves his own comedy series on TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 05:40 PM

That law must have come as a terrible blow!

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 06:00 PM

If Spaw lived in Malawi, he'd be under house arrest.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 10:58 PM

This thread is just hummin' along. I'd suggest y'all give a listen if you can to Da Yoopers on Youtube and visit their site.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 11:57 PM

Goodness gracious - am I the only person taking this problem seriously?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 12:17 AM

No, I am too, Smokey, believe me.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 12:21 AM

I lie awake at nights thinking about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 12:31 AM

Pleased to hear it, chaps. Civil liberties are being eroded here and if we're not careful, before you know it they'll even be making it illegal to shit on buses.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 12:32 AM

Police and investigators will need new technology.

I need you to fart in this tube

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 08:24 AM

". . . they'll even be making it illegal to shit on buses."

THAT'S carrying democracy too far.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 09:03 AM

How can they prove that you did it on purpose? Perhaps it should be called illegal forced farting in public.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 02:56 PM

There was a Swedish couple who got arrested for having sex in broad daylight on the front steps of the Swedish parliament building, in front of numerous astonished passersby.

When they were brought before the judge, the man said, "We didn't realize where we were at the time."

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 14 Mar 11 - 11:18 PM

I suppose they could tax it.

Would you go on Pay As You Fart? And have a fart meter fitted.

Or would you opt for Flatulation Assessment? Hoping for Fart Tax avoidance strategies.

The trouble with taxes like that is of course that the bottom can fall out of them, and that has been known to create a nasty smell.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 12:44 AM

I still say we should push ahead with combustion, it's obviously the way forward. The problem with vague tax legislation is that it's very hard to follow through effectively.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999 Sorry again!
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 12:51 AM

"I still say we should push ahead with combustion, it's obviously the way forward."



Sir Isaac, what sayeth thou now?

Uh, for every action there is an equal and damned irritating sonuvabitch who pushes against the idea. I'm fed UP with the MINT!

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 01:01 AM

Glad to note you appreciate the thrust of my argument, 9.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 01:03 AM

...Though it's hard to say whether the motion would be carried in the House of Commons without causing a stink.

Subject: Lyr Add: BOTH SIDES NOW (Joni Mitchell)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 01:19 AM

Joni Mitchell

BOTH SIDES NOW


Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall.
I really don't know clouds at all.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. you leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

I've looked at love from both sides now,
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall.
I really don't know love at all.

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say "I love you" right out loud,
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say
I've changed.
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.

I've looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall.
I really don't know life at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 01:37 AM

Good post..

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Stower
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 07:43 AM

Seems to me we should celebrate the act, like Mr Methane.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 09:50 AM

Why isn't there a Le Petomane tribute band when you need one?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 12:39 PM

Because of the dire lack of sufficiently talented applicants to form said band.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: breezy
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 04:37 PM

There's a song here

has no one mentioned the Blantyre explosion ?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 05:02 PM

Sorry, but I don't find pit disasters that funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 01:36 AM

Ever noticed that there is something about a fart, that people really find enjoyable?

Why do farts stink?..................................................................................................................................................................>>>>>                            ..............................................V

                                              V               

                                              V

                                              >.............................................................................So deaf people can enjoy them, too!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Becca72
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 02:21 PM

If they also follow the rule of "He who smelt it, dealt it" then they won't have to worry about whistleblowers...so to speak...

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 05:17 PM

He?
Tsk, we'll have none of that sexist talk here.. Besides, there is a wealth of scientific evidence, carried out scientifically by generations of eminent scientists, to support the incontrovertible fact that women are undeniably more guilty of this heinous act than men, due to their smaller brains. It accounts for 91.38% cases of erectile dysfunction, only we are generally too polite to say so.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 06:19 PM

Evidence based on years of painstaking scientific research, in fact, and not to be sniffed at.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Mar 11 - 11:58 PM

Why don't women fart??? (Nothing sexist about it)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.......
..........................................................
.................................V


                                           V                        


                                           V.....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

                                           V...........V

                                                       <
.........................................>>>> .............             >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> V

                                                V


                                           Because they don't keep their mouths shut long enough to build up pressure!!

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 12:08 AM

This thread has become juvenile. I love it!

However, that aside, it is imperative that we preserve the right to fart. I ask, what else ya gonna do with it?

I rest my case.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 01:03 AM

"we shall fart in France,
we shall fart on the seas and oceans,
we shall fart with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our right, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fart on the beaches,
we shall fart on the landing grounds,
we shall fart in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fart in the hills;
we shall never surrender"

(Smokey, 2011)

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 01:09 AM

Damn. Thems bitchin' words.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 01:21 AM

The wind of change is coming, 9.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 06:42 AM

This was their finest fart...!

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:07 PM

Alan: "This was their finest fart...!"

Just wait till it drifts over the pond....they'll have to evacuate London!..though I hope it misses Ireland!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:25 PM

Yet more info: A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:38 PM

I haven't got mice... And if I had, I don't think my blood pressure monitor-thing would fit on them.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:47 PM

Does that mean that if you have high blood pressure, you should sniff mouse farts?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:48 PM

I have to ask....
Are these mouse farts or human? I'm troubled by a vision of scientists solomnly lifting their white coats and trying to fart in a constant and predictable manner into rows of mouse cages. I suppose it would be something for them to talk about at parties.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:53 PM

I just wanna know how they measure and identify mouse farts. I'm guessing that the scientist aren't emanating at the mice, but you never know. It's easier to smell human farts than mouse farts. I used to have mice, and I don't remember them farting that much.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:54 PM

Dogs can hear it.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:58 PM

That must be it, then. They use specially trained mouse fart detection dogs. They must use some special signal to let the scientists know when it's a rotten-egg fart, as opposed to a bean fart or a cheese fart or some other variety.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:59 PM

"I used to have mice, and I don't remember them farting that much."

Well, la-di-da. I used to have crabs and I don't remember them farting at all.


"La-di-da

Meaning

Used to highlight and ridicule snobbish forms of behaviour or speech.

Origin

'La-di-da' was fading out of use in the language until it staged something of a comeback following its use by the eponymous heroine of the 1977 film Annie Hall. Diane Keaton's character actually said 'La-di-da, la-di-da, la la'. This wasn't a reference to swanky or snobbish behaviour - it was used as a meaningless phrase, spoken out of context when nervous, to emphasize Hall's ditzy personality.

The expression was in general use by the 1880s. This usage was probably advanced by the inclusion of 'la-di-da' in some songs of the day. George Duckworth Atkin and others collected many of these in the journal House Scraps, which was published around 1883, and included these two songs:

We are a Merry Family, We are! we are! we are!

Jack, he deals in Canadas,
In Trunks, one, two, or three;
Willie, he gives turns away,
But not to you or me.
The young 'un goes to music-halls,
And does the la-di-da;
We are a shiney family,
We are! we are! we are!

Untitled:

La-di-da, La-di-do,
He's a well-known old Adonis,
La-di-da, La-di-do,
You may tell it by his nose,
La-di-da, La-di-do,
For the colour all his own is,
It's a pleasing combination
Of the beetroot and the rose.

'La-di-da' sounds as though it may be of French origin. It has been taken up as Cockney Rhyming Slang for 'cigar' but that, of course, wasn't the origin of the term, merely a usage of it. In fact, 'la-di-da' derives from the earlier reduplicated phrase 'lardy-dardy'. That phrase was cited in Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces and Extravagances, 1849:

One of those haw-haw fellows, who used to hang around you - lardy dardy, pois'ning the atmosphere with their pomadey. [Note: pomade has two meanings - either a type of cider or a sticky, scented gel used to dress hair. We can safely assume the above citation refers to the latter.]

That example shows 'lardy dardy' used as an exclamation. Other contemporary sources used it in the current descriptive manner, for example, this piece from Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel Three times dead; or, The secret of the heath, 1859:

You're not much good, my friend, says I, with your lardy dardy ways, and your cold blooded words.

Reduplicated expressions like lardy-dardy usually have one word that supplies the meaning and a secondary rhyming word, which is added for emphasis. In this case the significant word is 'lardy'. These days, 'lardy' just means 'full of lard', like lardy cakes, the sweet, fatty 'heart attack on a plate' buns that are still sold in the UK without any form of health warning. 'Lardy-dardy and 'la-di-da' have nothing to do with lard. It is more likely that 'lardy' was a corruption of 'lady' or 'lordy', which match the meaning of the phrases."

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:00 PM

A couple of years ago we had the pleasure of hearing Peggy Seeger live with the definitive statement on this. It's on Youtube: Peggy Seeger. It's a Free World. I tried to make a link, but got a weird thing with the search including mudcat stuff in the addy.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:08 PM

Peggy Seeger sang a song about crab farts?

I think if a crab farted, it would smell like what they'd been eating: you. So you wouldn't notice you-farts.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:11 PM

OK. I have a serious question, and frankly I don't expect to get a serious answer from THIS crowd.

If farts ARE outlawed, will we have difficulty getting them through security at airports?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:19 PM

I think I've just realised how bees manage to fly..

But anyway.. fart smuggling, yes, tricky one. In the sealed frame of a bicycle or wheelbarrow, perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:19 PM

Ok, I've just had to close my office door so my employees don't think I've gone completely off my cracker. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:24 PM

And anyway, you can tell when a mouse farts because all the other mice move to the other end of the cage and the one left is whistling and looking around like (s)he doesn't know what just happened...

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:29 PM

It's actually been proved that between 68.3% and 81.7% of mousely squeaks are really caused by flatulence.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 04:23 PM

You think crabs think mouse farts are deafening?


And as so far as airport security, wolf down some beans, and when your warmed up, spread your arms and prepare for take off...then let 'em rip.

Viva refritos!!!!..and awa-a-a-a-y!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 04:33 PM

One more try for Peggy

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 05:30 PM

You think crabs think mouse farts are deafening?

If you want a sensible opinion on that, and not just more of this puerile silliness to which we have been thus so far treated, you'll have to specify whether you mean mouse crabs or human crabs.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: kendall
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 07:47 PM

A friend of mine has a cap with this on its front: IF YOU WONT SMOKE, I WON'T FART

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 08:17 PM

I bet I could not smoke for longer than he could not fart :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 08:20 PM

OK. If you people aren't going to take this seriously then


Smokey, I bet I COULD smoke for longer than he could fart!

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 08:25 PM

Yes, but you get to inhale sometimes.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 08:28 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 08:32 PM

And the unparalleled satisfaction of simultaneously farting and smoking. Who says we can't multitask?

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 10:20 AM

""This guy deserves his own comedy series on TV.""

Coals to Newcastle! We've already got a series about him, starring Robet Lindsay. It's called "My Family", and he is a dead ringer for the rude dentist. Of course they won't let him fart on air.

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The one that clears ALL the pipes is farting and sneezing simultaneously.

Mind, you could end up three inches shorter.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 11:49 AM

Ever since I turned 60, it's been axiomatic: NEVER EVER trust a fart.

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 12:03 PM

Bicycle clips around one's ankles . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 06:49 PM

"He whose bowels are somewhat fickle,
Ne'er should strain, lest he might trickle."

(Wordsworth)

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 07:40 PM

"Vent thy gas with modest pressure;
Forceth not the trumpet's bray.
So thy arse be thus more fresher;
Fit to fart another day."

(Kipling)

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: Smokey.
Date: 19 Mar 11 - 01:35 AM

"Grant us, Lord, tho' e'er sae humble,
The gift tae fart, yet no' tae rumble -
Gi' us tranquil troosers, blest
Wi' mickle stench nor dampness."

(Burns)

Subject: RE: BS: Illegal to fart in public
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 19 Mar 11 - 01:04 PM

As opposed to smoking, If Bill Clinton farted, do you think he should inhale??

GfS