> > I was so proud of myself until I read this. Yesterday at the record fair,
> > I passed up a record of a farting contest and I'm almost positive that one
> > of the participants was called "La Petomaine".
> > What can I say? The guy wanted ten bucks. If it had been five, I guess
> > I'd be getting private emails now requesting tapes.
> >
> > Nat
>
> Fret not, Nat.
>
> What you likely passed (heheh) on was a Canadian Comedy record called the flatulence contest, or something similar. An ingeniously funny bit featuring two commentators describing in detail, and with sound effects, the goings on at a fictional farting contest.Towards the beginning, they describe one of the contestants entering the ring and give details about his attire, saying that the aperture from where the sound emanates, called the "Finesse du Breeze" was decorated with fringe. It's pretty funny stuff (for an entire record of fart jokes.)
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sorry for the blatant commercialism, but i couldn't pass this one up...
i think what you may be referring to is the "Crepitation Contest"
record, which circulated on bootleg 78s for years. In fact, I have 2
discs of a 3-disc set of just such a bootleg- the third disc was not to
be seen in the thrift where i picked them up. they're just acetates with
hand-written labels.
Anyway, I currently have what I think is a 1970s 33rpm issue of the
classic Crep Contest recording for auction on ebay, if anyone's
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 05:10:49 PDT
From: "Robert McKenna" <rmckenna@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New (ish) Serge Gainsbourg biography
>
> Has anyone read Gainsbourg's novel, 'Evguenie Sokolov'?
>
> regards
> Jonny
yeah, it's not really a novel. you could write it in crayon on bog roll and it wouldn't stretch from here to the wall. it's about an artist who uses his violent farting as the motor impulse for his hysteric drawing. it's quite silly but well worth the 1/2 hour it would take to read it. the 2 collages in the edition i saw, which i assume were done by him, were dead good though.
