Tag: Cultural Studies

The ICEF has a long history of seeking to understand farts through experimentation. In all cases, this has required the fart under investigation to actually leave the body. There are, however, a number of circumstances in which – for a variety of reasons – it’s best to keep a fart inside the body, if only…

We have written previously about a special type of fart, one which features a ‘tail’ – an extra accent sound at the end of the primary sound. Our feeling is that this particular arrangement (hereinafter a ‘tailed fart’) evokes a more humorous response than a standard, single-sound fart. While others have attempted to explore the…

The Rake Gag is a scene from the television program The Simpsons, in which one of the main characters steps on a rake. The rake then flips up in such a way that the handle hits him in the face.  This is a classic comedy gag, but in this case the writers had the same…

In previous posts, we have observed that farts have the qualities of both speech and music. Although we believe it is theoretically possible to communicate with farts, the physiological challenges are daunting, and we have made little progress in this area. Thus it was with some surprise that one of the members of our college…

One of our core values at the ICEF is that no fart should go unmeasured. Our preference is to employ one of our custom-built devices to capture and store a complete record of the event, including audio and air quality data. For obvious reasons this is not always practical and we often resort to an…

In the past we have discussed techniques for concealing farts in public. It now feels appropriate to reveal that some members of the college have been running an informal set of experiments with the exact opposite goal: to maximize attention paid to farts, by strangers, in public.

As Canada commemorates its 154th birthday and folks from sea-to-sea gather in celebration, we turn to the lighter side and consider, briefly, some techniques for concealing farts in public.

Last week we successfully stored a fart in a jar. All indications were that the fart would have remained in that jar for a long time. While it might have been interesting to let it lie for an extended period (and this may be the subject of a future experiment) it was entirely too tempting…

In order to help celebrate this past week’s Valentine’s Day we have a special contribution from long-time ICEF member IraVanDamme in the form of a poem.