straightdope.com popular Mar 22, 09 03:24 pm — Dear Cecil: With all your scatological insight, what exactly is a fart? Is it, as some surmise, a burp gone wrong? Is it a relative of the hiccup? The sneeze? And is it not healthier to vent oneself than to squelch?
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