"How much does a fart bomb cost, anyway?" [Warning: PG13?]

Does your life feel somewhat boring some of the time?  Do you yearn to learn?  Well, then, I suggest hanging out with my friend Tali and her two adorable but stinky kids.  (Okay, both being tweens they probably wouldn't like being called either of those adjectives but they truly are beautiful, fascinating, and, according to each other, randomly foul-smelling from various parts of their bodies.)

Now I won't lay any claim to what you may be learning...like one of those movies or TV shows that bluntly states "the views expressed in this programme are not necessarily the views of the station"....

"How much does a fart bomb cost, anyway?"  was Tali's quote and the title I promised to be that of my next blog entry.

Fart bombs.  Gubs.  (Which, so named by their father, is excessive abdomen flab - the rolling, fatty version of a six-pack...which both claim to have and neither skinny-minny does.  I, on the other hand, boast multiple gubs and half-jokingly blame them on both of my children.)  Sharts.  Why is toilet humour popular no matter your age, gender, race, education, income?  (Come onnnn...admit it...fart jokes still make you inwardly explode with a few chuckles...)

Wikipedia defines it as "off-colour humour" (or, more technically American: "off-color humor") and further explicates that it is of "poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morality of a culture".  And yet often we still laugh, don't we?  (Am I alone in this????  I thought I was beyond it until our children could speak and, without warning or training, began laughing aloud at toilet-y  jokes or each other's "toots" as we call them in our household.)

Why is it funny?  Because those instances of embarrassment when we've let gas to discover another person (probably the highschooler you were enamored with) standing directly behind you, right int he "line of fire" zone?  Or those horrid moments that have  happened to some when nature takes an appalling turn and tricks us into believing the gaseous emission will be only that when it is far, far more, far, far stinkier, and far, far greater of a mess?

Maybe it truly isn't funny at all?  Are the laughs legitimately ones of embarrassment?

Any funnies happening in your life?  Vulgar or otherwise???