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Perhaps you could direct me to the relevant data on this:
Farting is as old as the hills.
I seem to have been labouring under the misapprehension that hills were unable to let wind.
Ah -- a hill of beans, perhaps?
The simile refers to age, not geographical feature.
However I must point out that Vulcanology, on which no doubt Nomad could elucidate at length, is the study of farting hills. You can't be me, I'm taken
is a nuée ardente (French for "fiery cloud")
Flows containing a high proportion of gas to rock are known as pyroclastic surges.
Such gases seem to have killed Pliny the Elder on the beach at Pompeii. Gases caused by the ingestion of a tin of .....z may be described as lethal, but are we certain that the chemical composition is identical in each case?
(If I don't get at least a Commandership in the Order of the PN after that, I'll be... )
"Did yer gerrany on yer,duck?"
I think sulphur plays a part in both systems... You can't be me, I'm taken
This proves that the practice may not be "as old as the hills" but it is certainly as old as Proto-IndoEuropean. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Let's go this way. No, let's go this way. Ok see you. Perdo. Perdo. May the wind blow through your tartan.
An excellent start to the games. The ball is in Afew's court, I believe. Unless there are other challengers... You can't be me, I'm taken
Flatulence of the earth was related with volcanoes from the days of yore. The Greek, the Romans, during the Middle Ages, although more hellish annotations were more en vogue as well. Dante made his own little contributions to this.
Volcanoes also have a particular mix of gas constituents, a fart signature if you will, although it's also dependable on time. Etna, for instance, is the largest volcanic contributor to atmospheric CO2. It's also quite rich in sulphur. Also, volcanic gasses are monitored and used to predict eruptions.
Just to elucidate to the novice: Pliny the Elder was not killed by a pyroclastic cloud, but as afew said, the gasses from the volcano. No normal living mammal survives the onslaught of a pyroclastic cloud. As famously recorded, the destruction of St. Pierre by a pyroclastic flow from Mount Pelée killed some 30.000 people and left just two survivors: one of them stowed deep in the city's prison and another living at the city's edge.
Returning to Pliny the Elder, there is also speculation that his death was a combination of exhaustion, possibly asthma or even a heart attack. I can look this up... The descriptions of his final hours were later related to Pliny the Younger also has left us with another impressive witness account of the Pompeii destruction.
(BTW, Order of the PN???)
So my account is exposed as a fake by a greater PN specialist than I can claim to be.
:^)
Good grief.
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