Have you ever heard of banking a fart?!? I recently heard the term and have no idea what it means. Is it like bouncing it off a wall so people think someone else did it? Like throwing your fart?
On a rather breezier note, in August the Riksbank paid out over $100,000 in compensation to a disgruntled employee. 44-year-old computer technician Göran Andervass had fallen out with one of his colleagues after being "provoked by a disgusting fart - a right stinker - at 7.30 am in my office", he told the court in a statement. Taking exception to this, and believing it to have been done purely to irritate him, Andervass took it upon himself to censure his colleague in a manner that only seemed to escalate the crisis, resulting in his taking an apparently unduly long sick leave (according to Norwegian news service Nettavisen) and ultimately being "given notice due to personal reasons" in late 2001.
He then took action against the bank, which "was advised by our legal representative to arrive at an amicable settlement with this person, which it then did," it told Newsmakers, and it now considers the issue to be "over and done with". But Andervass's legacy lives on: such behaviour will no longer be tolerated at the bank. It told Nettavisen: "We do not have a specific fart ban, but we have ethical guidelines and naturally, farting is simply not done here."
Hahaha! Reminds me of the Carlin routine where he does a radio pitch for the Fart Retrieval League. "Millions of farts are lost every year in seat cushions. . . . Please help rescue lost farts!"
Yeah, but whoever sits down later gets that banked fart rebounded into them--I don't believe any fart is ever "lost" it always seems to find it's way to someone's nose.
Carlin is great though. I wanted to see him when he came here in October.
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Date: 2003-11-17 12:37 pm (UTC)To me it sounds like a guaranteed expelling. As in "I just had camp's beans for lunch, I'll be banking on a fart come the afternoon!"
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Date: 2003-11-17 01:29 pm (UTC)this one's so bad, i'm banking it for later on!
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Date: 2003-11-17 01:35 pm (UTC)What I Got On a Google Search
Date: 2003-11-17 01:39 pm (UTC)ILL WIND BLOWS AT RIKSBANK
On a rather breezier note, in August the Riksbank paid out over $100,000 in compensation to a disgruntled employee. 44-year-old computer technician Göran Andervass had fallen out with one of his colleagues after being "provoked by a disgusting fart - a right stinker - at 7.30 am in my office", he told the court in a statement. Taking exception to this, and believing it to have been done purely to irritate him, Andervass took it upon himself to censure his colleague in a manner that only seemed to escalate the crisis, resulting in his taking an apparently unduly long sick leave (according to Norwegian news service Nettavisen) and ultimately being "given notice due to personal reasons" in late 2001.
He then took action against the bank, which "was advised by our legal representative to arrive at an amicable settlement with this person, which it then did," it told Newsmakers, and it now considers the issue to be "over and done with". But Andervass's legacy lives on: such behaviour will no longer be tolerated at the bank. It told Nettavisen: "We do not have a specific fart ban, but we have ethical guidelines and naturally, farting is simply not done here."
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Date: 2003-11-17 02:14 pm (UTC)"Oooh, I farted into that chair, you know it's going to stink when I get up later, I totally banked it."
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Date: 2003-11-17 07:10 pm (UTC)Carlin is great though. I wanted to see him when he came here in October.
Banking a fart?
Date: 2003-11-17 07:04 pm (UTC)Re: Banking a fart?
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