Kilmarnock (n.)
When one farts when nobody is around only to be
surprised by a crowd of strangers who appear as if out of nowhere and as a
consequence think that you always smell like that, one is said to have committed
‘Kilmarnock’.
The name is due to the fact that this type of
incident was first recorded in the 1672 in the small Scottish town of Kilmarnock
where a local farmer was set upon by a group of nuns just after he had emitted a
particularly vapour. The nuns later wrote ‘He reeked as if clothed in
rotted cabbages’, and although the whole incident was later found out to
have been a rather unpleasant mistake, the nuns vowed never to return to the
town of Kilmarnock because still felt that on balance, the people there were a
bit smelly.
Unfortunately for the people of Kilmarnock, the reputation stuck.
Unfortunately for the people of Kilmarnock, the reputation stuck.
Posted on Friday - April 29, 2005 at 06:41 PM
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