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Joel's Journal and Fact-Filled Fart Book

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I was never so happy to find a book. This answered all of my fart-finding needs, such as... what is a fart? Where does it come from? Do monkies fart? All these answers and more were found in a concise, clear manner in this marvelous novel, "Joel's Journal and Fact-Filled Fart Book." I have never felt more happy or complete in my entire lifetime. Anyone who has ever wondered about farts should read it! It's a fartin' good time!

This is one of the funniest books I owned as a child. A must have for anyone who thinks that farts are funny.

I have a condensed version of this book published in 1983 that just broke me up. I spent many happy hours watching friends read passages as they laughed so hard tears streamed down their cheeks. Not that my friends are all the weird, you understand, just that the book is that good. (Actually some of my friends were not that crazy about it, sometimes it takes a thing like that to find out who your friends really are.)

Tragically, I lost the book a long time ago and occasionally thought of it over the years, wishing I still had it. Not long ago as I was cleaning out my office and the treasured little book turned up again!

I spent a half hour in hysterics re-reading it, then went to my computer to look it up and lo and behold, here it is still in print and 128 pages! My copy is only 32 pages. I'm ordering the full version immediately.

This is a hysterical and at times poignant little work that casts new light on an old social taboo. It is part journal, in which the young gentleman writes about his family, his friends, their cat called Drut and their dog called Albert Schweitzer, and part dictionary, in which an impressive variety of farts is listed and described, from the Alarm Fart to the Zipper Fart. In re-reading it recently, I found myself rolling on the floor every few pages. In this regard, I found the following particularly funny: (1) The Dog Fart: It is necessary for a dog to be around for this fart to occur  (2) The Interrogatory Fart: Seems to say, Oh? or, Well? It can be a very silly fart when you are alone  (3) The Scuse Me Fart: This fart excuses itself as it is farted. It is about as close to words as a fart can get. The sound it makes is like a little soft whisper that says, Scuse me. Its the most polite of all farts  As a masterpiece of scatology and coprofilia, this book is a delightful rival to certain passages in Chaucers Midsummernights Dream. I highly recommend it as a gift book.