Don’t call me an immature college student for this. Perhaps it was too many cups of coffee between morning classes or simply a random thought racing through the mind while walking through buildings, but I found myself thinking today that flatulence–or farts–were probably never a problem until the construction of buildings or the use of caves.

Literarily, farting first appeared in works such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales–more specifically in Miller’s Tale–and in Dante’s Divine Comedy according to Wikipedia. Both of these take place long after humans started residing inside structures.

The only way to know would be if we found cave drawings depicting gas release, but I would imagine there were much more important things to paint on the walls of caves than Blue Collar comedy.

Googling farting finds some interesting sites like this one, but not much academic study of the history of farting.

Maybe I will just have to buy the book, and stop blogging this before you really consider me immature.

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