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    9 months ago

    There are still people playing the lute and all kinds of other historic instruments. There must be a group of devoted flatulists out there? I’m not just saying any old farters, I’m talking true flatulists.

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    Imagine being the king, and you’ve got that one friend you want to put on payroll, but their only claim to fame is farting.

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      it was genuinely so fucking boring that people were more than happy to give any visiting traveller free food and housing so long as they told some stories and news, you could straight up live your life as a travelling storyteller because everyone was so dreadfully desperate for some entertainment.

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        Life will not be the same after this.
        A close elevator is now an excusite art gallery.

        My basketball team used to do great fart performances in the van before the out-games. Truly amazing people. Material for Fartonauts.

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      I am impressed at the control you’d have to have to not only fart on command, but to fart so consistently that it is considered a specific performance with a name. “Oh, I love this one!” It’s amazing.

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      Last week, I was watching a live taping of a comedy podcast, where a couple of journalists tell crazy stories from history.

      They were doing the story of serial scammer, Frank Abergnale, aka the guy Leonardo DiCaprio plays in Catch Me If You Can. The problem with this story is that Frank Abergnale might be full of shit in his own right, as the only source for much of his story is based on his self-biography, which is very likely not true.

      The hosts take turns researching and telling the stories, while the other one listens. This week, the storyteller was the lactose intolerant guy. So, because he knew his story was gonna be a lot of bullshit, he had brought a packet of 18 cheap cheeses. So if the listening host got a whiff of this being a lie, he would be able to call bullshit, and the storytelling host would have to eat one of the cheeses as punishment on behalf of Mr. Abergnale.

      All this to say that this comment made me realize, we still have jesters and flatulists today. We just call them comedians and podcast hosts.

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        I can’t decide if Abergnale making everything up makes him a lesser scammer or even better than we thought.

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    Imagine 20 years on, he’s an established country gentleman, married with grown children, and he still has to ride to court every Christmas to fart for the king.

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    Notable flatulists: two Brits and a French. I dunno you, but they seem full of shit.

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        If you fart in the woods and nobody is around to hear it… is it automatically deadly?