Narrowly avoiding the lure of fart jokes

It has long been a canard of certain parties, myself included, that evidence people are way too willing to waste a lot of money includes the famous cow fart studies which measure the impact of cow flatulence on the environment. Yes, they claim this natural act is more harmful than spray cans, never realizing this alone defeats a great portion of their argument. "Man is destroying the world by causing warming, partially by having their cows unleash noxious fumes from the region of their buttocks." Well said.

And in a time when children are starving, diseases are running rampant and the world is in turmoil over the possible murder of the Pakistani cricket coach we now have a new and exciting development. Millions of dollars of research money have produced a pill to help cows stop farting.


The only problem at the moment is that the pill is about the size of a fist, which is hard to persuade the cows to swallow.

That line is a dream punch line. Unfortunately...it isn't (meant to be) a joke. Good thing there is nothing important for them to research. Perhaps soon they will be able to get the size of the anti-cow flatulence pill down to the size of a cueball, then I think we will have something.