“Pull My Finger” Brings Rude Noises — And An NSFW Category — To The iTunes Store

You can keep your LOL's and BFF's and even STFU's — my favorite online acronym is NSFW ("Not Safe For Work"), a handy red flag that the link, graphic, or YouTube video so tagged is gonna be something the manager who — thanks to Murphy's Law — just HAPPENED to be looking over your shoulder when you clicked it, is gonna report you to Human Resources for.  At the very least.

Air-O-Matic — who'd previously given us the genuinely useful Sticky Notes app — have now unleashed their inner John Belushi and unveiled Pull My Finger, a US$0.99 app which turns your iPhone into a (wait for it!) whoopie cushion.  Yes, you heard right: eighteen different selectable fart noises, with a Randomize function and a continuous-loop "Chorus" option.  Here's the little bugger in action:

Wow.  How can you not love that?

Well, the App Store didn't, at first.  Not because of the content, believe it or not — they just didn't know how to classify something that, while admittedly lewd in a PG-13 way, didn't tiptoe over into fullblown pron either. Then someone at the House of Jobs got the brilliant idea to use the already-out-there-on-the-InterWeb "NSFW" tag, and…

Butt-trumpet boffo!  In fact, the the li'l bugger recently entered the "Top 10 paid apps" list, prompting its creators to crow "It's a Festivus miracle!"

I for one prefer to quote the Rolling Stones' "Jumping Jack Flash," and merely say…Pull My Finger is a gas, gas, gas.

[Fart on over to iTunes to pick up your copy today.]