Saturday, March 12, 2005
THE SWEDISH OFFICE OF HOMELAND FLATULENCE
Problem:
The Swedish scientific heroes even published a paper on the phenomenon, then--egad!-- found that Scottish scientists had beaten them to to punch by publishing a paper demonstrating that herrings are just as rude in the Pacific and Atlantic as they are in Baltic waters. The Scots, however, weren't motivated by the Russkies:
The Swedish navy had been picking up strange unidentified sounds and worried they might be from Russian submarines, so they asked scientists to investigate.And investigate they did. The unidentified sounds turned out to be fish farts. To be more specific, the bad boys were herrings.
The Swedish scientific heroes even published a paper on the phenomenon, then--egad!-- found that Scottish scientists had beaten them to to punch by publishing a paper demonstrating that herrings are just as rude in the Pacific and Atlantic as they are in Baltic waters. The Scots, however, weren't motivated by the Russkies:
We heard these rasping noises, which sound like high pitched raspberries, only ever at night, whenever we saw tiny gas bubbles coming from the herrings' bottoms.No word on the gender of the tooting fish but I'd bet they were all male.
