August 1, 2018

"It’s happened thrice, so it can’t be a coincidence: There’s some guy who I believe is playing a fart sound as he passes people as some sort of social experiment."

"I think it’s always the same... fart... Every time... while I was talking to a friend.... we just get interrupted by this fart that leaves us silent and staring. He plays it as he passes and never looks back, acts like nothing happened. Guy is white, college age, very straight-laced looking."

From "There’s a ‘serial farter’ on the loose in the West Village" (Page Six).

More and more the news makes me think about Harpo Marx...



Just yesterday, writing about the Manafort trial, I came very close to adding this:

45 comments:

rehajm said...

It's happened Thrice™...

Somebody owes me some money.

rehajm said...

serial farter isn't mine but cereal farter™ is...

tim maguire said...

Who says "thrice"? Maybe the serial farter stalks pretension?

rhhardin said...

Amazon carries whoopie cushions. Use the Althouse portal.

tim maguire said...

I should trademark my initials so everyone who doesn't register their trademark has to pay me.

rhhardin said...

Farts happen in threes.

Nonapod said...

Part of me thinks that anyone who uses the term "thrice" derserves to be farted on. But then I remember that I've casually used some words that some people may find pretentious.

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

First time is happenstance;
Second time is coincidence; and
Thrice is enemy action.

Wilbur said...

W.C. Fields had a line in 'The Bank Dick" - upon being introduced to his daughter's boyfriend he remarked "Ogg Oggilby? Sounds like a bubble in a bathtub."

rhhardin said...

Crepitus departs, emitting a sigh. - Flaubert Temptation of St. Anthony

Achilles said...

Is this what Trump does at his rallies?

And the leftists are always left staring.


tcrosse said...

Leslie Nielsen was notorious for doing this during interviews, in elevators, wherever. You could look it up.
He had a portable fart-machine

Tank said...

tim maguire said...

Who says "thrice"? Maybe the serial farter stalks pretension?


When you team it with twice it makes sense.

Once, twice, thrice …. see?

Gahrie said...

Shouldn't this have the "that's not funny" tag?

Mr. Groovington said...

Never trust a fart in India.

Oso Negro said...

Try farting on black people and see what happens! That experiment has been done.

Rob said...

"Truly I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will fart three times." Matthew 26:34

Mr. Groovington said...

Blogger Oso Negro said...
Try farting on black people

I have a new Bantu girlfriend. Tell me what you mean.

reader said...

Back when I worked at General Dynamics there was a man who had two awful habits. One of them was that he would get up and go into the other cubicles in our department and silently pass gass and then leave. At first we all throught that it was unintentional and he was just a gassy person. But his cube mate informed us that he did not pass gass in his own cubicle.

Quaestor said...

I am your farter. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

gspencer said...

"Guy is white, college age, very straight-laced looking."

Obvious White Privilege.

tim maguire said...

Tank said...
tim maguire said...

Who says "thrice"? Maybe the serial farter stalks pretension?

When you team it with twice it makes sense.

Once, twice, thrice …. see?


How often do you hear "twice" used in a thee-part list? I can think of 1 instance:

"She's once, twice, three times a lady."

FWBuff said...

"Legendary journalist Christiane Amanpour walks into the room trailed by the most impressive of clouds: a cumulonimbus of fortitude, pierced by solar flares of her signature erudition."

That sounds worse than the serial farter!

Ann Althouse said...

"Who says "thrice"? "

He who says "thrice," dealt it.

I mean...

He who says "thrice," is the possessor of the vice.

Ann Althouse said...

"straight-laced"

The term is "strait-laced."

Quaestor said...

The term is "strait-laced."

Dire straights: particularly large and ferocious heterosexuals, mainly Trump supports. see dire wolves

Quaestor said...

Trump supporters... damn, I ruined my own joke.

Oso Negro said...

@sodal ye - I don’t know that a similar result is obtained with Africans. Google “farting in the hood pranks”. It’s a popular category.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Does "strait-laced" have anything to do with corsets and how they're trussed?

I don't usually hear the word "thrice" more than two times every fortnight.

Yancey Ward said...

"Trump supports"

Now Chuck will come along and try to tell us that Trump is wearing a corset to make himself look thinner.

Fernandinande said...

straight-laced
adjective

strait-laced.

Fernandinande said...

This was approximately funny:

Captain KIRK Mocks Alexandria Ocasio Cortez' Embarassing Interview on PBS' Firing Line

Sydney said...

Maybe he just eats a lot of fiber.

Joaquin said...

He's probably making a YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRCUy7WcOVA

Mr. Groovington said...

Oso Negro said...
@sodal ye - I don’t know that a similar result is obtained with Africans. Google “farting in the hood pranks”. It’s a popular category.

Yikes.

You know, the thing that started happening in India, and now in Africa, talking about farts, is the near absence of a woman's visible butt hole, it just tucks away discreetly, like an afterthought, with no tonal difference. Very nice.

rhhardin said...

"Pig."

- Revenge of the Pink Panther

Darrell said...

How many of you think Chuck is a serial farter?
Raise your hands.

tcrosse said...

How many of you think Chuck is a serial farter?
Pull his finger.

JaimeRoberto said...

Big deal. There's a ton of serial crappers on the streets of San Francisco.

rehajm said...

Unce....tice...fee tines...a mayday!

tcrosse said...

Of course there are serial farters and crappers. Unless you have two assholes, you have to do them one at a time. A guy with two assholes would probably be a big hit in prison.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Q:'Did you just fart?"
A: No-- I pooped also!"

FullMoon said...
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Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Dammit, Ann!!
See- this is what I mean-- you let a perfectly good thread on farting get all crapped up. Why do I even bother posting here.

tim in vermont said...

Is this the thread where I can report that I saw a “wet bottom pie” for sale in Shartlesville, PA?