The Tooter Trapper

Just read about THIS innovative product and couldn't resist clipping it:

"For odor, about the only thing that Levitt says works is a fart cushion made of charcoal, called the Tooter Trapper, invented by a man whose co-workers complained of his farts so much that they demanded he be moved out of the office pool into a separate room with a door. The air filter, which you sit on, does a good job of eliminating fart odors but, of course, treats only the results, not the symptoms, of the noxious-smelling gas." (From "Dr. Fart Speaks," by Stephen G. Bloom).

I love that! His co-workers made him move because he had such bad gas!

Anyway, apparently you can also buy special charcoal-filled underwear that will do the same thing, only, of course, more discreetly. But perhaps we shouldn't be ashamed of gas. Our venerable Benjamin Franklin once wrote an essay called Fart Proudly.

Interesting that so many people have spent so much time and effort on this problem!