Saturday, April 28, 2012

Fart, the new Weapon of Mass Destruction



New post on Fellowship of the Minds

Fart, the new Weapon of Mass Destruction

by Dr. Eowyn

This is a follow-up of yesterday's post, "U.S. Marines banned from farting in Afghanistan."

After he read the article, FOTM's resourceful reader/commenter GrouchyFogie unearthed this piece of valuable information from the misty recesses of history.

During the last stage of feudal Japan, the Tokugawa or Edo Period (1603-1867), the ruling shogun regime tried to keep foreigners from the West away. But Japan, being pre-industrial, was at a military disadvantage. So some Japanese resorted to magical thinking and imagined that flatulence might be deployed in "He-Gassen (屁合戦)" or "fart wars" to literally blow away the enemy.

An unknown artist (or is it an artist who preferred to remain unknown?) immortalized the He-gassen plans in a scroll. Here are some scenes from the scroll.

WARNING: Eye bleach alert! (Hint: It helps if you think of the nudity and farting as art. LOL)

So, instead of being politically-correct wusses, the eunuchs in the U.S. Marine Corps who issued the fart ban can take a chapter from Tokugawa Japan by making strategic use of our Marines' "wind" to blow away those Taliban muzzies.

Let them rip!

~Eowyn

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