[Magdalen] What are we reading

[Georgia DuBose]

A fart is, after all, the exit of gas from the bowel.

Georgia+,
helpfully

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/24/2015 12:03:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu writes:
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> sequel  to Stephen King's The
>> Shining. It's...wait for it...The  Farting.>>>
>
> The Mayo Clinic has bought out most of the independent
> medical facilities in the western portion of Wisconsin, and
> some of the older, more colorful names have disappeared.
> Among them would be the Midelfart, which means something
> like "middle of the trip" in Norwegian.  The latter clinic had
> Anglicized the name some decades ago to "Midelfort"
> but now that regional color is gone.
>
> On a related tangent, "ausfahrt" in German means "exit",
> and is frequently seen on the autobahns.
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>
> David Strang remembering the infamous farting scene from
> Ingamar Berman's "Fanny and Alexander".