Rabelais' tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel are laden with acts of flatulence. In Chapter XXVII of the second book, the giant, Pantagruel, releases a fart that "made the earth shake for twenty-nine miles around, and the foul air he blew out created more than fifty-three thousand tiny men, dwarves and creatures of weird shapes, and then he emitted a fat wet fart that turned into just as many tiny stooping women." The plays of William Shakespeare include several humorous references to flatulence, including the following from Othello: Benjamin Franklin, in his open letter "To the Royal Academy of Farting", satirically proposes that converting farts into a more agreeable form through science should be a milestone goal of the Royal Academy. In Mark Twain's 1601, properly named [ Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors, a cupbearer at Court who's a Diarist reports: The Queen inquires as to the source, and receives various replies. Lady Alice says: In the first chapter of Moby Dick, the narrator states: Inculpatory pronouncements The sourcing of a fart involves a ritual of assignment that sometimes takes the form of a rhyming game. These are frequently used to discourage others from mentioning the fart or to turn the embarrassment of farting into a pleasurable subject matter. The trick is to pin the blame on someone else, often by means of deception, or using a back and forth rhyming game that includes phrases such as the following: He/she who declared it blared it. He/she who observed it served it. He/she who detected it ejected it. He/she who rejected it respected it. He/she who smelt it dealt it. He/she who sang the song did the pong. He/she who denied it supplied it. He/she who said the rhyme did the crime. He/she who accuses blew the fuses. He/she who pointed the finger pulled the trigger. He/she who articulated it particulated it. He/she who introduced it produced it. He/she who inculpated promulgated. He/she who deduced it produced it. He/she who was a smart-ass has a fart-ass. He/she who sniffed it biffed it. He/she who eulogized it aerosolized it. He/she who sensed it dispensed it. He/she who rapped it cracked it. He/she who policed it released it. He/she who remarked on it embarked on it. Whoever rebuts it cuts it. Whoever said the rap did the crap. Whoever had the smirk did the