Fart-i-Fact

Watching Jackass:The Movie, I know, is very weird way to spend your Saturday Nights..
And having nothing else to do, Your's Truly and his Gang 'o Four, decided to spend the precious 2 hrs of their evening watching Johnny Knoxville and his band(read: Jackasses) perform idiotic stunts and getting themselves hurt in the process..
Well, one things for sure. Either you will be totally grossed out, or you will enjoy it till your bones rattle.
I have to tell you folks about one particular stunt, which triggered a array of thoughts in my mind. Have you ever thought of firing a rocket cracker from you A$$?
Well, The Jackasses have! It was one of the weirdest stunts that I have seen.
And it only question that came to my mind was "Can you burn fart?"
What if the actor had really farted during this act?
Can fart be ignited? Would there have been an explosion had he farted at that moment?
Mathematically speaking, the probability of farting at that specific moment would be very low.
These quesions made me devote some time on Sunday to surf the net and explore more about fart.
I now understand that some of parameters that lead to fart may be
a> The amount of beans+eggs+meat+cauliflower eaten the upto 24 hours.
b> Number of fizzy drinks had within 6 hours of the feat.
c> Number of chewing gums chewed within past 8 hours.
and many more on the same lines..
And as for the question whether you can ignite farts :
Research says that fart can be ignited because they contain methane and hydrogen, both of which are inflamable. If the fart constitutes of more percentage of methane, it will burn with blue flame.(Note : Methane burns with a blue flame. 10th Grade Chemistry)
Also if it contains higher than normal content of Oxygen, there is a very good change of an explosion, if you were to try to burn it.
I visited the local bookstore yesterday along with "Sarkari" who had planned to buy a good book.
While he was doing his rounds, in the cricketing books section, I wandered across to the weird and miscellaneous collection.
After browsing through a few rather weird books, I came across a title that really took me by surprise.
"Why Do Men Have Nipples?" by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
And the tagline read :"Hundreds of questions you'd only ask your doctor after your third martini!"....
Well that's true. You wouldn't dare asking these questions to a doctor if you are sober ;¬)
So, I thought definitely someone would have the same query in mind as me. "Can you really really REALLY ignite fart".
Well this book answers this and a lot more such weird questions!
Definitely a good read!!!!

Happy reading......
Cheers!