The Isle of Marm

"JEEVES: MAN OF THE PEOPLE." Or, "Text-Based Girl-Talk: Farts, Burps, TV, and the OED."

1. DRM: Also, Louie last night was not as good as the season premiere. bloo bloo bloo.
2. CMC: Well, you can't have an episode whose sole purpose is to lead up to a 42 second fart EVERY week. ;)
3. DRM: I contend one can.
4. CMC: Maybe a burp. But not a fart.
5. DRM: there was a period of time in which my brothers and I communicated primarily in pictures of bowel movements. I may be the worst person to take up this argument with.
6. CMC: I almost just google-searched 'burps are better than farts' but I remembered that I am a) at work and b) a semi-functional member of society? B is clearly up for debate.
7. DRM: The only reason I am not looking it up right now is that I don't even want to put that kind of idea out there. You also like mayonnaise, don't you? Blech: Also, the fact that you wrote "google-searched" is adorable and I will immortalize it somehow. If I WERE to do so, I would surely log-out first. And then Ask Jeeves. Is that still a thing?
8. CMC: I don't like 'googled'. I don't like verb-izing (confession: I first wrote 'verbalizing' because that seems like the word for turning something into a verb, but it's actually a real other thing! Which I remembered when I typed it!) brand names. It seems wrong. We were searching for things before Google came around! Who do they think they are!? Yeah. Totally Ask Jeeves. He'd know. He's a man of the people. P.S. MAYONNAISE ROCKS.
9. DRM: See, I think I might put a finer point there: I LOVE the manufacture of words from other words. HOWEVER, I too am mindful about avoiding brand metonymy because sometimes one doesn't know for sure which brands are ubiquitous enough to be reasonable. BUT, as "Google" has been in the OED 5 full years now, it's probably okay. I feel we've lost the original thread here though: farts as a feasible endpoint for 22 minutes of programming. Think of it in terms of South Park: you knew Kenny would likely die, but that didn't make it less ...amusing.
10. CMC: I am conflicted. Farts are gross. Burps are funny. BUT, if one ended every episode with one or the other, at some point it would get escalated to the next step-- the farts would turn to poop, and the burps would turn to vomit. And someone pooping their pants is way funnier than someone throwing up. So. I'm puzzled.
11. DRM: I suppose my inability to burp as a kid led to my finding belching interesting and impressive as opposed to especially funny. But, to the point, I think one can do a lot given limits, and the limit of 1 delightful fart every episode would not be a hard limit to deal with.