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Whoopee cushions are inflated by blowing into the flapped opening. "Self-inflating" cushions have an interior sponge that keeps them in a normally expanded state, and do not require inflation. The cushion is then placed under a seat cushion or other material, for someone unsuspecting to sit on — forcing the air out, causing the flap to ...
The most notable joke device [dubious – discuss] is the whoopee cushion [citation needed]. Although commonly employed at events and gatherings, practical joke devices are sometimes seen in everyday life, for example as a mechanism of play by children, or among adult co-workers in a work environment. In addition to commercially manufactured ...
Whoopee! whoopee cushion (Mieke Dalle / Getty Images) Put a whoopee cushion under your baby’s high-chair cushion, under the booster seat or car seat cover and see if you get a laugh from the ...
Johnson Smith Company still sold whoopee cushions, invisible ink, joy buzzers, and x-ray glasses in the late 2010s. 1922 – Johnson Smith Catalog grows to 400 pages, employing more than 150 people. The company is moved to Racine, Wisconsin after Alfred fails at publishing a magazine that competed against The Saturday Evening Post .
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Whoopee cushion – natives of the great plains were known to use animal bladders as whoopee cushions to play practical jokes on each other. They were so popular, a common Lakota myth actually depicts a sorcerer using an animal bladder to put a spell of flatulence on a girl who spurned him.
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The medieval Latin joke book Facetiae by Poggio Bracciolini includes six tales about farting.. François Rabelais' tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel are laden with acts of flatulence.