WHO CUT THE CHEESE?: A Cultural History of the Fart

**cat9tails** · 11-06-2010, 18:38

Released in early 1999, Jim Dawson's Who Cut the Cheese? has already sold 100,000 copies (now in its 13th printing!) and become the world's top-selling book on the subject of flatulence. It is also the most comprehensive book on fartlore, containing chapters on historical events (such as the fart in Jerusalem that led to the deaths of 10,000 people in 44 A.D.), recordings (including the history of "The Crepitation Contest"), literary flatulence (from Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, Blake, Twain, Zola and many others), Hollywood farts (they're rich, they're famous, they're living your dreams), Internet flatulence (in the ether of cyberspace they can hear you farting), fart humor, fart urban legends, Le Petomane (the famous French fartiste), Howard Stern's Fartman, religious farting, the history of fart words, the anatomy of a fart, and so much more. Nearly everything you'd want to know (or ought to) about farting is in this book.
WHO CUT THE CHEESE? (A Cultural History of the Fart) By Jim Dawson

**Victor29** · 11-06-2010, 21:48

What is a fart?

A fart it is a pleasant thing,
It gives the belly ease,
It warms the bed in winter,
And suffocates the fleas.

A fart can be quiet,
A fart can be loud,
Some leave a powerful,
Poisonous cloud

A fart can be short,
Or a fart can be long,
Some farts have been known
To sound like a song...

A fart can create
A most curious medley,
A fart can be harmless,
Or silent , and deadly.

A fart might not smell,
While others are vile,
A fart may pass quickly,
Or linger a while...

A fart can occur
In a number of places,
And leave everyone there,
With strange looks on their faces..
.
From wide-open prairie,
Or a small elevator,
A fart will find all of
Us sooner or later.

That farts are all bad,
Is simply not true-
We must never forget...
Sweet old farts like you!