Another Example of bad Nanny-ism!

Again I didn't click on the link, but if you can't trust a Drudge headline, who can you trust?

A school district somewhere in the United States of America is going to outlaw intentional farting.

Smells good on paper, right? Who isn't against rampant pull-my-finger-ism? How many times can it be funny? (Okay, only 'pullers' get to vote on this question.)

But who gets to judge whether it was intentional or not?

True story: in 8th grade we had a kid transfer in to my class. The core of this class, say 20 out of 23, had been together since 4th grade. So here was an outsider. And you know how brutally despotic junior high kids can be. His name was Arthur. I can still see his bespectacled face, but I can't remember his last name. He didn't live near any of the rest of us. His mother made him vegetable sandwiches, like onion, lettuce & tomato (OLTs were obviously going to invite ridicule!) and he had gas.

He farted uncontrollably! (Well, we all assumed he couldn't control it.) Maybe he would have been better off with detention, instead of having Kent Reid, who sat behind him, continually pretend to faint and fall out of his seat. But it was always funny, the way Kent would get our attention with his fake gagging, start waving his hands in front of his face, and then fall over.

Mrs. Morrison finally put Art/Fart (there is no limit to the cruelty children inflict on the weak) at rear of the class, next to the door, which when he started farting, she would open and ask him to move closer to it.

Anyway, we had all better start practicing a credible look of stunned surprise...