TOTALLY Off Topic!

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:31:30 +0100, "MSA" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Sorry, but just had to share this eBay item with you!

The "questions from other members" make it even funnier...well for me
anyway!

http://tinyurl.com/8z8f9

I have just come back from 5 weeks away - 3 weeks in the Pyrenees and
the last 2 in Brittany with 17 members of my closest family (2
parents, 3 brothers, 3 sisters-in-law, 6 nieces and 3 nephews). My
eldest nephew is 10, and well into things like farts. I felt it my
duty as an uncle to encourage his interests and educational
development. On my suggestion he is now conducting scientific
experiments into bottled farts. Does the smell mature with time like
a vintage port, or does it just fade away? Does the ambient
temperature effect the odour? Beans on toast one day, egg and bacon
the next - how do the results compare after a week?

Unfortunately I didn't consider encouraging his business sense by
recommending a sale of his prized gas on eBay.

Bertie Wiggins said:

I have just come back from 5 weeks away - 3 weeks in the Pyrenees and
the last 2 in Brittany with 17 members of my closest family (2
parents, 3 brothers, 3 sisters-in-law, 6 nieces and 3 nephews). My
eldest nephew is 10, and well into things like farts. I felt it my
duty as an uncle to encourage his interests and educational
development. On my suggestion he is now conducting scientific
experiments into bottled farts. Does the smell mature with time like
a vintage port, or does it just fade away? Does the ambient
temperature effect the odour? Beans on toast one day, egg and bacon
the next - how do the results compare after a week?

Unfortunately I didn't consider encouraging his business sense by
recommending a sale of his prized gas on eBay.

You must introduce him to the following book to aid his studies
http://snipurl.com/hchz

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

Bertie Wiggins said:

My
eldest nephew is 10, and well into things like farts. I felt it my
duty as an uncle to encourage his interests and educational
development. On my suggestion he is now conducting scientific
experiments into bottled farts.

One of the Last Word questions in New Scientist a while ago was about
how many bacteria there are in a fart. No-one seemed to have an answer,
although one respondent experimented with farting on an agar plate and
waiting for it to grow.

Can't seem to find it on the New Scientist website though :-(

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Bertie Wiggins said:

My
eldest nephew is 10, and well into things like farts.

I just clicked my Stumble button and look what came up:
<URL:http://www.heptune.com/farts.html>

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Bertie Wiggins said:

and well into things like farts. I felt it my
duty as an uncle to encourage his interests and educational
development.

Last week's discovery. I made lentil and mushroom curry, but found
I had only the red lentils available for it (more suitable for dal
than a hot curry). It provoked serious farting, with a serious
smell, the day after.

Question for the young scientist: what is different in red lentils -
as against green or brown lentils - that causes this?

--
Not me guv

Danny Colyer said:

Bertie Wiggins said:

My
eldest nephew is 10, and well into things like farts.

I just clicked my Stumble button and look what came up:
<URL:http://www.heptune.com/farts.html>

And co-incidentally, I stumbled across this the other day (Although I've
no idea what I was originally looking for!).

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/fartp4.html

(Contains an extremely funny video, if you're feeling at all childish)

Jon

Tony Raven said:

You must introduce him to the following book to aid his studies
http://snipurl.com/hchz

Wasn't there also a film (starring Leonard Rossiter) of him/that?
--
This post contains no hidden meanings, no implications and certainly no
hidden agendas so it should be taken at face value. The wrong words
may be used this is due to my limitations with the English language .

yours S
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You must introduce him to the following book to aid his studies
http://snipurl.com/hchz

Wasn't there also a film (starring Leonard Rossiter) of him/that?

There was, and I saw it on telly once. It was a blast.

--
Mark, UK

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but
not when it misses."