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Some kids never grow up. I keep telling Mr Bags it's possible to break wind without making a noise, but I think he quite enjoys farting . Doesn't half wrinkle his nose when DD releases a pong without the noise though .

Farts and toilet jokes seem to what four and five yr olds love best of all.

Bags I promise not to emit a "jolly woofter" when we get together.

jingle ..."jolly woofters"...Love it!

Five year old GS's favourite word at the moment is pop-off.

j08 . Phoenix on Pope thread and jingle on this one have made my day!

Crikey is slang too, apparently. #doesanyonecare?

Elegran crikey - must be a problem in Newcastle

We call farts 'jolly woofters'.

Bags I think the French for fart is pet. There are little light French cakes called "pets do nonne" - nun's farts.

From the same meaning, a petard was a small bomb used to blow up fortifications. It had a tendency to blow up the person lighting the fuse, too, so you could be hoist with your own petard.

petallus I see you're aiming to go out in a blaze of Pre-Lent naughty word glory - getting it all out of your system for the next forty days perhaps? Hmmm, 'getting it all out' - not good

I got it wrong. It's:

pee, po, belly, bum, drawers.

No fart!

Surely we are all being flippant.

Who could possibly be offended by the word fart?

Did somebody say knickers? Heh heh!

What's that well-known rhyme?

Ma's out
Pa's out
Let's talk rude
Pee, po, belly, bum, fart.

it won't be bottom burp.

can I use bum burp instead?

What is french for fart?

Yes, that was my point, elegran. I think people only object because it has four letters and is an old english word. If we used a french or latin word for fart no-one would object, just as they don't object to excrete but they do object to shit, and they don't object to copulate but the do object to the germanic equivalent even when it means the same as copulate.

and so on.

I think some people just thrive of being offended.

Five people posted while I was typing. I must speed up.

Still, I sat down for a rest because I felt a bit blergh. Now I feel a lot better. Thanks, gransnet.

But arse has four letters too,* Bags*

Maybe hyphenating it to venting makes it eleven and acceptable.

Like they giggle when someone says knickers.

Good grief! Do people actually get upset about farts? I thought it was only kids who made a big deal about farts.

I's sticking with slang then. Bottom burp is far too poncey for me.

Or even "fart" = "arse vent"

Yeah. Two four letter words instead of one. Gotta be good.

And, hey, they're all Old English words.

Even better.

No it's slang. The official term is 'bottom burp'.