Flatulence humor

[2][3] Another example from classical times appeared in Apocolocyntosis or The Pumpkinification of Claudius, a satire attributed to Seneca on the late Roman emperor: At once he bubbled up the ghost, and there was an end to that shadow of a life…The last words he was heard to speak in this world were these.

"[4]Archeologist Warwick Ball asserts that the Roman Emperor Elagabalus played practical jokes on his guests, employing a whoopee cushion-like device at dinner parties.

In the first, the character Nicholas sticks his buttocks out of a window at night and humiliates his rival Absolom by farting in his face.

But Absolom gets revenge by thrusting a red-hot plough blade between Nicholas's cheeks ("ammyd the ers") "Sing, sweet bird, I kneen nat where thou art!"

In Chapter XXVII of the second book, the giant, Pantagruel, releases a fart that "made the earth shake for twenty-nine miles around, and the foul air he blew out created more than fifty-three thousand tiny men, dwarves and creatures of weird shapes, and then he emitted a fat wet fart that turned into just as many tiny stooping women.

Lady Alice says: Good your grace, an' I had room for such a thundergust within mine ancient bowels, 'tis not in reason I coulde discharge ye same and live to thank God for yt He did choose handmaid so humble whereby to shew his power.

Nay, 'tis not I yt have broughte forth this rich o'ermastering fog, this fragrant gloom, so pray you seeke ye further.

"[12]In the first chapter of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, the narrator states: ...I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck.

[19] A connection between relationships and performing a Dutch oven has been discussed in two undergraduate student newspaper articles[20][21] and in actress Diane Farr's relationships/humor book The Girl Code.