Middle school issues ban on intentional flatulence

The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: "flatus expelled through the anus." And while it's a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.

According to this week's Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke's on the boys as the penalty for "intentional farting" is now a detention.

Holly S. Anderson

This, of course, is what comes of allowing women to be in charge of anything. Fred Reed would (correctly) note this as another step in the "sissification" of the American male. While farting and other bodily functions related to digestion may not be socially acceptable in certain circles, the enjoyment derived from them by adolescent boys isn't exactly news. My question for the prissy gubmint eddication types, who voluntarily agreed to spend most of their day around said adolescent males, by the way, is this: What did you expect? Little Lord Fauntleroy?

It has been noted that there are two kinds of people with regard to their sense of humor: Those who think farts are funny and those who don't. I disagree, I believe the dichotomy to be of those with and those without any sense of humor at all.