Originally published at: Image of farting man from 1770 childrens book | Boing Boing
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Since the world first begun, I was never once seen,
Though everyone knows in their presence I’ve been.
No sooner I’m born than I give a loud cry,
And your noses inform you, I presently die.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-childs-new-years-gift
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Of course he may just have been blowing the candle out…
Since there is “putting the fire out in the time-honoured fashion”, maybe there was a similar time-honoured fashon of extinguishing the candle…
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I hope he doesn’t do that at birthday parties.
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Hey, whatever you want to call it. No shaming here. 
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Rather than putting it out he could be trying to light it…
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That was famously one of Le Pétomane’s set pieces…
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The Honorable William J. Le Petomane, Governor of Rock Ridge??
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No, his namesake.
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One of these days I’m going to look up the rules on when to use the long S…
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Maybe. But first - “pull my finger”.
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oddly enough, this book is on the “Moms for Liberty” recommended texts for florida science books. /s
crass, sophomoric, base humor is right on point for them. the lowest forms. it is all they “get”.
The riddle the sphinx is too embarrassed to use.
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…but not the Sphincter!
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I thought it was used only in the middle of words, but that is violated here.
Huh, I thought so too, but apparently the long s is pretty much used anywhere in print, except:
- If a word ends in s (e.g. “congreſs, ſucceſs”); the s is next to an f; or the s is before an apostrophe.
- Previous to the 18th century: if the s is before k or b.
In handwriting, the long s is only used as the first in words with double-s. (e.g. “succeſs”)
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Now, what’ll that asshole think of next?
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(Crossing the streams)
“aſshole”
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