Is a fart personal property

Answer 1

Interesting! A fart is the expulsion or escape of gas from the colon. Whilst the gas was in your body it would certainly be your personal bit of gas. If you bottled it immediately it escaped it would still be your bottle of gas. Yet I think that once you let it escape into the atmosphere you lose possession of it ... it disperses into the atmosphere and is completely diluted by the other gases in the atmosphere. The fart you released a couple of months ago might, by now, have circled the world a couple of times and it's gasses may have been absorbed by atmospheric moisture and rained on all the states of the union!

You may like this poem ... written in the 1940s by an English schoolboy I knew:

"A fart is a volcanic eruption

It comes from the mountains of Bum,

It penetrates right through the trousers,

And makes a most wonderful hum.

A fart is good for everyone,

It gives the body ease,

It warms the bed in Winter time

And keeps away the fleas."

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