The art of farting

Which is worse, or more gross, so to speak; passing wind, or that other activity that is the extreme of passing wind? I mean, that unmentionable
activity for which people lock themselves up in toilet cubicles for many long minutes, hence the diplomatic-sounding reference to it as a “long call”. Is there something you know that is even half as gross?

When I was a little boy, we talked as freely about farting (we called it ‘gassing’ then) as we did a football match. It was never

Read more ...