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i think the whoopee cushion was invented by Antoine Lavoisier!!! tommylommykins 18:47, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Does the last sentence need restructuring? Can an era be 'opened'? Perhaps better terminology might be 'The new technology era allowed the development of...' or something similar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djmorison ( talk • contribs) 12:57, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
What is the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of this device? I'm guessing it's a blown idiophone (14), albeit not falling into any of the more specific categories. Does this sound right? — Smjg ( talk) 23:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
An edit was made on August 31 2022 to assert that Whoopi Goldberg was the inventor of the whoopee cushion in 1930, however the actress was born in 1955. This seems to be a disingenuous edit made in bad faith in an attempt at humor. 98.1.121.34 ( talk) 19:36, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
This has been discussed at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#A_Roman_Emperor_invented_the_Whoopee_Cushion (Dec 26, 2022), part of which is copied below:
"...a factoid repeated on many websites, including Wikipedia's article on Whoopee cushion#History and modern usage (since 2010). The claim's cited book source does indeed mention Roman Emperor Elagabulus'
but when I checked that book's primary source, Historia Augusta (English translation here, lines 25:2–3 (Latin available by clicking 🇻🇦), it tells a slightly different story:
The Roman emperor's prank here being not the sound of flatulence, but that the seated unexpectedly found themselves lowered below the table".
In view of this, it seems in order to delete the whole misleading entry. Also the reference to the emir and his inflated cushions is not viewable on Google Books (to me at any rate) and the concencus amongst the Reference Desk editors was that an animal skin seems unlikely to make the required raspberry noise and is therefore not the same joke. So I propose to delete all the text about early whoopee cushions and go with an invention date of the 1930s. Your comments below please. Alansplodge ( talk) 18:36, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
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i think the whoopee cushion was invented by Antoine Lavoisier!!! tommylommykins 18:47, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Does the last sentence need restructuring? Can an era be 'opened'? Perhaps better terminology might be 'The new technology era allowed the development of...' or something similar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djmorison ( talk • contribs) 12:57, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
What is the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of this device? I'm guessing it's a blown idiophone (14), albeit not falling into any of the more specific categories. Does this sound right? — Smjg ( talk) 23:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
An edit was made on August 31 2022 to assert that Whoopi Goldberg was the inventor of the whoopee cushion in 1930, however the actress was born in 1955. This seems to be a disingenuous edit made in bad faith in an attempt at humor. 98.1.121.34 ( talk) 19:36, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
This has been discussed at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#A_Roman_Emperor_invented_the_Whoopee_Cushion (Dec 26, 2022), part of which is copied below:
"...a factoid repeated on many websites, including Wikipedia's article on Whoopee cushion#History and modern usage (since 2010). The claim's cited book source does indeed mention Roman Emperor Elagabulus'
but when I checked that book's primary source, Historia Augusta (English translation here, lines 25:2–3 (Latin available by clicking 🇻🇦), it tells a slightly different story:
The Roman emperor's prank here being not the sound of flatulence, but that the seated unexpectedly found themselves lowered below the table".
In view of this, it seems in order to delete the whole misleading entry. Also the reference to the emir and his inflated cushions is not viewable on Google Books (to me at any rate) and the concencus amongst the Reference Desk editors was that an animal skin seems unlikely to make the required raspberry noise and is therefore not the same joke. So I propose to delete all the text about early whoopee cushions and go with an invention date of the 1930s. Your comments below please. Alansplodge ( talk) 18:36, 27 December 2022 (UTC)