That which we call a fart by any other name would smell as acrid

March 10, 2008 5:34 AM

[NSFW, except in the can] The Barn Owl Fart - A familiarity with owl calls is helpful in identifying this fart. Almost any morning if you get up just before daybreak you can hear one of these birds talking to himself. It's a sort of a crazy laugh, particularly the way it ends. If you hear a fart that has about eight notes in it, ending on a couple of down notes, and it sounds maniacal, you have heard the rare Barn Owl Fart.

A few fart jokes.
Fart poetry.
Fart etiquette: at the gym.
Fun Fart Facts.

posted by not_on_display (15 comments total)

This post stinks.
posted by horsemuth at 6:01 AM on March 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

A recent favorite of mine, vaguely related: fartparty.org
posted by slimepuppy at 6:07 AM on March 10, 2008

Hoo hoo farted?
posted by three blind mice at 6:51 AM on March 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

None of the Barn Owl's vocalizations sound anything like any fart I've heard.
posted by Stewriffic at 7:12 AM on March 10, 2008

Terrible.
posted by Daddy-O at 7:24 AM on March 10, 2008

beano?
posted by moonbird at 7:34 AM on March 10, 2008

If you hear a fart that has about eight notes in it, ending on a couple of down notes, and it sounds maniacal, you have heard the rare Barn Owl Fart.

Geez, just admit that it was you, and stop with the elaborate cover stories.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:41 AM on March 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm only glad that you-tube wasn't around to immortalize my brief juvenile dalliance with the trouser trumpet.
posted by Artful Codger at 7:42 AM on March 10, 2008

From a 1970's National Lampoon:

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the earth in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from the mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he farts.

Al Tennyson
Westminster Abbey
London, England
posted by sourwookie at 7:42 AM on March 10, 2008

^sourwookie, I had that issue when I was a kid -- lost in the dark caverns of my brain until now. Thank you!
posted by not_on_display at 7:56 AM on March 10, 2008

I fart in color. Mostly chartreuse.
posted by schleppo at 10:55 AM on March 10, 2008

(pssssst... jonmc thinks women's pooters smell like banana puddin'... pass it on...)

(linked thread was also the inspiration for this FPP.)
posted by not_on_display at 11:16 AM on March 10, 2008

...next time, remind me to spray some febreze or something before hitting post.

thankyewverymuchgnight
posted by not_on_display at 7:12 PM on March 10, 2008

MeFa?
posted by lifeless at 2:16 AM on March 11, 2008

MeFa.

Leaves a blue skidmark.
posted by not_on_display at 4:11 AM on March 11, 2008