The following quotation from a Mel Brooks' character (Governor William J. Le Petomane) seems very apropos here:
BTW, Le Petomane is an interesting choice of character name. Go here to read the complete story of this extract:Originally Posted by Blazing Saddles
Joseph Pujol, better known as Le Petomane (which we may loosely translate as "the fartiste") . . . Le Petomane performed his unique act from 1887 to 1914, and became one of his country's best-known vaudevillians. At one point he was earning 20,000 francs a week, compared to 8,000 for his contemporary Sarah Bernhardt.
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