Buy a signed book from Don Corrigan’s pop culture trilogy and receive a raffle ticket for the amazing Christmas Flatulence Basket packed with gassy goodies. (pictured above)
Flatulence scholar Don Corrigan will unveil the Christmas Festival Flatulence Basket in the Washington, Missouri area on Nov. 25. The one-of-a-kind yuletide basket is destined to become a holiday favorite.
Festive and flatulence-festooned baskets will be available for viewing at the Blumenhof Winery Christmas Boutique in Dutzow on Saturday, Nov. 25, from noon – 5 p.m. Many vendors of holiday cheer also will present at the boutique.
Author Corrigan will have a book signing for his pop culture series of books, including his most recent: Flatulence in Popular Culture. Book buyers can get a signed book and a raffle ticket for a flatulence basket, the perfect holiday “white elephant” gift for dad.
McFarland Publishing recently announced that Corrigan’s pop culture trilogy is completed with three books: Nuts About Squirrels, American Roadkill, and Flatulence in Popular Culture. His flatulence book is headlined: “I fart in your general direction,” per the Holy Grail movies of Monty Python.
Shoppers can come to Blumenhof; buy a signed book from the pop culture trilogy; and, receive a raffle ticket for the amazing Christmas Flatulence Basket packed with gassy goodies. Signed books – with accompanying raffle ticket – can be purchased thru Dec. 18. Winner of the prize holiday basket will be drawn and announced on the first day of winter, Dec. 21.
Important Flatulence Firsts:
A taboo in mass media for years, there are a number of “firsts” when it comes to free expression and flatulence. Well-known names are associated with those “fart firsts.”
Whoopi Goldberg broke a barrier in comedy for females with her flatulence comedy. Director Mel Brooks broke the mold in movies with his fart scene in “Blazing Saddles.” Shock jock Howard Stern broke a sound barrier with his flatulence antics on the radio waves.
I Fart in Your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture, now breaks new ground as a definitive work about the entire flatulence movement with commentary on the classic works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, Twain, Hemingway and more.
For those who wonder what flatulence has to do with the outdoor and nature topics usually covered by environmentalecho.com, there are plenty of tie-ins within the pages of this exhaustive work on flatulence.
• Dinosaur farts may have played a role in the extinction of these amazing reptiles. The book examines the theory that T-Rex and his buddies may have “fouled their own nest” to the detriment of a once sustainable environment.
• Bovine flatulence may have dire consequences today. Global methane emissions from livestock farts are enormous. Methane from bovine farts is an especially destructive greenhouse gas and difficult to capture or neutralize.
• Every cow expels in the neighborhood of 30 to 50 gallons of methane on a daily basis. This fact becomes all the more alarming with the realization that there are about 1.5 billion cows roaming the planet.
• Politicians who embrace calls for fewer livestock farts, and more healthy diets for humans, are getting some pushback. They’re meeting resistance from hamburger lovers.
Read about all aspects of flatulence emissions – and the role of farts in high culture, low culture, pop culture and American mass culture – in this definitive book in literary culture: I Fart in Your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture.
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