![]() ![]() Sometimes, one knows when a fart is coming, and he tries to restrict its volume but finds his bowel control not as precise as he remembered, and the flatulence is humiliatingly audible. Rectal farts too occupy the full range of a scale: Sometimes, one knows when a fart is coming, and he can either hold it in and let it out in a more appropriate setting, or he can restrict its volume with precise bowel control. usage, it too draws up contemplations of the body’s disobedience to the mind, but it extends its axis of severity. The Wiki-model brain fart recalls a different quality of the rectal fart, which is the sheer unpredictability of its magnitude. Deep behind his dead, blank eyes, Bobby’s mind desperately tries to recall how to sit in a chair. The teacher calls his name again, and the whole class turns toward him they too become frozen in place, horrified, as they witness their friend caught in the cold grasp of his inevitable capsize, slowly but surely tipping over the side of his seat, pushed by nothing but the force of his own weight. Picture little Bobby, just asked the sum of 2+2: He is quiet as a stone. Picture me and my cinephilic friend: I pause mid-sentence unable to utter George Clooney’s name, not because I can’t remember it-indeed, it flashes in neon in my mind-but because I’ve forgotten how to shape my mouth to pronounce that impossible |jôrj|. The stakes of the brain fart have just been raised. “A brain fart is slang for a special kind of abnormal brain activity which results in human error while performing a repetitive task, or more generally denoting a degree of mental laxity or any task-related forgetfulness, such as forgetting how to hold a fork.”įorgetting how to hold a fork? That’s scary shit. The kinetic user-edited encyclopedia begins its article on brain farts as follows (or at least it does least today): But devastating as it is to forget the number four (and come on, who hasn’t been there), Bobby should thank his lucky stars he ended up on U.D. Poor Bobby, cut down in the prime of his youth by a brain fart. “obby raised his hand to answer the teacher’s question only to find that he had had a brain fart, and he was unable to answer 2+2.” This feeling often leads to head banging and hair pulling.”Īarrgh, I should have known it was George Clooney! I don’t deserve these golden locks! Nor, unfortunately, does young Bobby, the subject of Mr. “When you are attempting to remember something very obvious, something that you know you should know. Their number one definition (currently rated at 331 thumbs up to 40 down) submitted by user David Peterle reads as follows: Urban Dictionary, the web’s premiere slang compendium, includes a number of definitions for brain fart, and their most popular entries are roughly equivalent with my usage above. Seeking more information on the body’s darkest abilities, I turned, of course, to the Internet. In the latter case, the betrayal of the flesh is complete, and the fart, more sinister. With a brain fart, however, you unintentionally discharge information that you had wanted to keep you suddenly and inexplicably lose a part of yourself that you had valued. Though it may be hard to admit, your body has done you a favor. With a rectal fart, you expel excess gas, a substance harmful to your body if kept inside for too long. Your flesh defies your mind’s better intentions.īut the parallel isn’t perfect indeed the farts are in some ways quite opposite. By farting, something you would prefer to not emit from your body is emitted against your conscious will. Like a rectal fart, a brain fart is a natural, inescapable, and unforeseeable body function that can be humiliating to undergo in public. From that movie, about the ocean? God, this is gonna kill me.” “You look just like-oh! Ugh, that guy, what’s his name. In my own vernacular, the term brain fart refers to a minute memory lapse, an acceptable excuse for forgetting the name of a country, or a chemical, or an extremely well known celebrity: I am speaking, of course, of the brain fart. Rectal flatulence is simple, straightforward cerebral flatulence poses a nearly unsolvable maze of meanings. ![]() This fart carries only one name, but its nine short letters stand for a whole variety of complex, even contradictory functions. ![]() Traveling north, however, we encounter a fart of opposite character. Each euphemism refers to the same thing, and that thing is the expulsion of intestinal gas through the anus, often bearing an unpleasant aroma. William Shakespeare once wrote, “A fart by any other name would smell as stanky.” And it does: See toot, or passed gas, or broken wind, or cut cheese. ![]()
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