So, I was looking at the fart wikipedia and I discovered this...
That's hilarious! Farts are now mainstream!
Or perhaps they have been for a while...
"The word
fart in
Middle English occurs in
Chaucer's "
Miller's Tale" (one of the
Canterbury Tales). In the tale (which is told by a bawdy miller as a group of pilgrims travel to Canterbury), Absolon has already been tricked into kissing Alison's buttocks when he is expecting to kiss her face. Her boyfriend Nicholas hangs his
buttocks out of a window, hoping to trick Absolon into kissing his buttocks in turn and then passes gas in the face of his rival."
This is great and it makes me wonder about more farting in popular culture. For example, if Brad Pitt has ever gotten on TV, talking about saving rainforest children, and then he just lets one rip and discovers later he took a little shit in his pants?