The Ancient Mesopotamians were not all that different from say... the guys on Jackass. Here's the kind of humor Daniel (lion's den Dan) would have been familiar with.
Flatulence as an enemy of intimacy is alluded to in Babylonian “love lyrics”: “Why did you break wind and feel mortified? Why did you stink up her boyfriend’s wagon like a wild ox?”Humorous allusions to excretion and flatulence are commonplace. Here the point can lie in unappetizing imagery, such as an Akkadian parody on a menology that enjoins wild donkey dung in garlic as the diet for the month kislimu, and for shabat hot bread and donkey anus stuffed with dog turds and fly dirt
A Sumerian joke alludes to a bride’s flatulence as an example of inconsequence; in another a boastful fox opines that when he urinated in the ocean he created it.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary (3:328). New York: Doubleday.
