The History of Gasteruption (Latreille)

A significant pagan draw is the natural tolerance pagans generally show for public farting. Druids are no exception. We enjoy a good public farting event as much as any pagans. That’s because public farts are not only especially funny, public farts also celebrate the mammal in everybody. Yes. The religious expression, farting, expressed as a Druid Dichotomy, is, Which would you rather?, fart, or be more like an angel.

Hold it! Do angels fart? Does anybody know? Do angels fart?

It was the famous yet dead French entomologist, Pierre Andre Latreille, who was fixing to get to name a genus of Ichneumon wasps, when he had a gasteruption. Gasteruption is what he called it later, after the event or fact, whichever. That’s right. Latreille was presenting at an important conference when suddenly his presentation was totally interrupted. Yes. There poor Latreille was, fixing to describe some bugs, when all of a sudden, a bunch of crazed Republicans arrived on the scene. It was terrible. The Republicans were hollering, Off with his head. Off with his head. Off with his head.

They would have guillotined Latreille on the spot too, for by that time the French had invented portable guillotines, but then Latreille cut a big old loud stinker. Plus, that particular stinker was so violent, a little paydirt protruded somewhat also into Latreille’s pantaloons.

Whoa! The Republicans could sense that Latreille was a man of the people after all. Yes. A juicy fart with paydirt saved Latreille from the guillotine. And henceforth, all those bugs that Latreille was fixing to name in the first place, are known to this day as the Genus Gasteruption or gasteruptiids.