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>James Joyce had a fart and scat fetish
>Jonathan Swift wrote extensively on farting
>Benjamin Franklin wrote essay about farting
>Pinecone has written scatological scenes
>Shakespeare wrote several fart jokes
>Herman Melville wrote some fart jokes
>Chaucer loved crude fart scenes
>Oldest known joke is a fart joke
What can we conclude from this?

>> No.14264846

>>14264818
>oldest known joke is a fart joke
what?

>> No.14264848

>>14264818
We can conclude that we must ponder the smell.

>> No.14264861

>>14264846
>The oldest identified joke is an ancient Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC containing toilet humour: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7536918.stm

>> No.14264896

We must imagine syphilis farting.

>> No.14264914

>>14264818
>>Herman Melville wrote some fart jokes
I only know the one in Chapter 1 of Moby-Dick about beans, there are others?

>> No.14265636

>>14264818
farts are extremely interesting; tickles our minds and provoques our noses.

>> No.14265662

>>14264818
I don't like fart jokes, but yesterday I saw a car that sounded like a fart and couldn't help but laugh.
in the comment section there were a lot of people asking themselves why they laughed at it.

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>>14264818
>In The Reign of Quantity, Guenon writes that a single spiritually intense BRAAAP is worth more than ten degenerate post-bean rumblers

>> No.14265712

>>14265636
a victorian-era ghost made this post

>> No.14265740

>>14265669
good post