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Often called "passing gas", "farting", "splitting the sheets", "breaking wind", ripping", "cutting the cheese".

Add your favorite term for flatulence. :-3

We live in entirely different parts of the world Lon. Where I come from no reference to such an event would be made by any adult in any circumstances whatever, it is the stuff of which schoolboys make their jokes and nothing else. The rest of us are limited to silently removing the dog into the garden should a guest find himself in such embarrassing straits.

You are so right Spot--we do live in entirely different parts of the world. UK humor for example is soooo different. Example---I like Mr. Bean and find him quite hilarious. His films have flopped in the U.S. though.

It's a well known fact that the only reason some people keep a dog is to have someone to blame for flatulent odors.

:wah:

Oddly, the only poem ever attributed to a US President is on topic. The attribution may or may not be accurate, I've no way of telling, but it goes back several decades and it was given in, for example, the Readers Digest when they printed it. It's also made in fairly authoritative books like Metcalf, Fred. The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations. Harmondsworth Eng.: Penguin, 1986. I sat next to the Duchess at tea;

It was just as I feared it would be:

Her rumblings abdominal

Were truly phenomenal,

And everyone thought it was me!

You'll notice that even Woodrow Wilson avoided the sort of expressions you're seeking. Perhaps he'd spent too long in Europe. And he did, as he says, associate with duchesses.

I find it interesting that though it is apparently inappropriate in the UK to make verbal reference to flatulence, sound effects of such are OK. I have seen a few films and commercials as such. I personally find that more gross than the written or spoken word or phrase. There is a Aussie and NZ Bank commercial that depicts a lovely lady in a bathtub with bubbles coming up to the surface of the tub making it quite obvious what had happened.

No sound, no words, just a visual depiction of the flatulent event.

An invisible frog

Fluffing, windy flew, barking spiders, tooters, loud but proud, silent but deadly.. :yh_rotfl

I have to say in self defence that attribution is not always all it's cracked up to be. This, for example, is boldly presented as fact elsewhere on the Internet...

Geoffrey Chaucer, Hys Lymmerik

Ther once was this ladye of Tyre

Whoo fild evry mann with deesiyre

Two sovrins enuff

For youre back setey stuf

But fees for onne nite are much hyer

An inside joke of me and my friends that began at a (had to be there moment) birthday party held by my friend, began the term getting my "Bitches and Cake" applied to farting.

Lon;1350665 wrote: You are so right Spot--we do live in entirely different parts of the world. UK humor for example is soooo different. Example---I like Mr. Bean and find him quite hilarious. His films have flopped in the U.S. though.

I love Mr. Bean!

It's a well known fact that the only reason some people keep a dog is to have someone to blame for flatulent odors.


I didn't know that about people keeping a dog. :wah: But I had this dog who could peel wallpaper off the walls with her odor or the tread off your tires if you were unfortunate enough to be trapped in the car with her. While tears were streaming, as everyone EEEEWWWWWED!!! loudly, she always just sat there, oblivious to it all.