Talk:brain fart

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The definition doesn't seem right...

Surely a brain fart is a an output of the brain, that posseses some of the common characteristics of a normal fart. A brain fart is a most probably unhelpful, possibly offensive to some but highly amusing to others, and as an idea it is likely to stink. It may be expelled deliberately or unintentionally, orally, loudly or quietly, suddenly or more slowly. It might be expelled in written form in the physical or virtual domains. It might be immediately disruptive or it might go unnoticed initially but have devastating consequences shortly afterwards as in "silent but deadly". Producing a brain fart is likely to be a source of relief or even pleasure for the producer, as the brain is cleared of the excess idea that created uncomfortable pressure within the brain and prevented proper disgestion of fact. The expelled brain fart may hang around pungently and colour much of what follows within the vicinity.

Brain fart could also be used as a verb, meaning the act of emitting, deliberately or unintentionally, an idea that posseses typical characteristics of a regular fart.

Updated Reference
In the Oxford English Dictionary since August 2015. Huggi (talk) 04:03, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Origin
The derivation of this slang term reaches back to 1997. Drew O'Brien, author but formally a voice-over audition director at Los Angeles talent agency Sutton, Barth, and Vennari, was recording a television commercial with actress Nia Vardalos. He fumbled a button on the DAT recorder and lost her take. He glanced over and apologized for his 'brain fart'. Ms. Vardalos chuckled and said she had never heard that phrase and O'Brien explained it just occurred to him. Over the course of other voice directing auditions, he used the term whenever he erred. The term went viral in the voice-over and wider entertainment media businesses at the time.


 * Evidence? Equinox ◑ 19:51, 17 April 2020 (UTC)