…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.

~ Mary Roach

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Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of sh*t and f*ck. (Tolerance zero)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Colon Foulmouthed Fuck Individual Neurons Profusely Replace Shit Structure Systems Terminology Tolerance Zero

She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.

~ Helen Hodgman

Helen Hodgman Cancer Colon Colostomy Stomach