A UK barrister sued Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service after a colleague asked him to stop farting
A man who was rather thin skinned
Declared that his colleague had sinned
And deserved a big fine
For crossing a line
And asking him not to break wind
Alamy
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What a great idea.
The law is an ass.
“OBJECTION…Your Honour, my esteemed colleague would seem to be talking through his posterior”
…the toot, the hole toot and nothing butt the toot,
So Help Me!
oh take a bow
That has to be a wind up.
Apropos cutting the cheese…
“Big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush…”
As James Joyce vividly reminisced in correspondence to Nora Barnacle in 1909.
…yes, written whilst suffering a bout of irrritable vowel syndrome I believe.
“Dow knowest an Irishman cannot abide a fart.”
Thomas Dekker observed in 1604.
You can read about the tradition of Ireland’s medieval professional farters and other literary farting ephemera here:
https://www.wildeirishe.com/post/a-fault-as-light-as-wind-braget%C3%B3iri