Source from a history major, with cited source
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Clew = Clue?
Thanks this gave me a good belly laugh.
Maybe the duck was of advanced age and unusually gassy?
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Great, now this is stuck in my head:
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Here’s one for those of us whose senses of humor stopped developing in junior high. It’s a total gas…
Stumbled across a Headfonics review of the Hip-Dac. On page 2 of that review is this passage:
"First off if you do not have a copy of Steely Dan’s “Everything must go” from 2003, get it. It is a well-recorded CD. Get it just so you can verify what I am about to say if not for some of the great tracks it has. Please get the FLAC version or the CD.
There is a track on that CD called “Godwhacker” and it is the fourth track. At about 15 seconds before the fade to end you could clearly hear someone fart in the studio. I never heard that fart before until now and I heard that track many times before.
Yea I know it is extremely funny but if you were the recording engineer would you retake and redo the section for that one “human” error? I would not, especially if it was a perfect take. Or maybe he or she did not hear it because they didn’t have a hip-dac handy or just wasn’t paying attention.
Why am I speaking about farts in an audio equipment review? Because that is called detail retrieval my friends. On this dac amp you could hear the singer’s breath, the lip flapping of the trumpet player, and yes, farts in the studio."
Sure enough, around 3:43 in the right ear, there it is:
[I will not apologize for my immaturity 
]
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I tried it with my AAC copy and cannot hear it. Life with lossy.
Learning french. 
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Wow, french is easy!
I heard both the subtle one right about 3:43 / 3:44, which is well before the end of the track, and another more pronounced one at 4:40, which is “about 15 seconds before the fade…” as the quoted passage mentions.
List of suspects?
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Oh, there was an encore! I was laughing too hard after the first one to catch the second.
As for blame, I’ll say it was likely one of the session players because it got caught on a mic. “Eating a diet that doesn’t give you gas” might need to be part of the job description for session players 
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Man these were not subtle at all lol
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X-post, warning: loud bass 
Guy said “too much free studio time”