I have a friend, let’s call her “Joan”, who thinks I am hopelessly juvenile, especially with regard to farts. She contends that all one has to do is to say the word, and I will burst out laughing. She is not entirely incorrect.
All I can offer in my defense is that, well, farts are funny. The word is funny and the act itself is hilarious. And apparently I am not the only who is tickled by farts, so to speak. Certain members of my family, for example, have exploited the inherent comic underpinnings of this perfectly natural act to, if I may say so, excellent effect. What brought home the universality of this is this product, which if there is a god, will one day be the standard in offices around the world.