The inadvertent co-mingling of two or more unique mixtures of gases, i.
e., farts, expelled via the recta of two or more individuals, respectively. Generally considered deplorable as another's
fart is traditionally considered inimical to
one's own.
Somewhere and sometime between our elevator ride from the 9th to the 90th
floor, our conflatulence invited the disappointment, and
indeed scorn, of the purists among us. This conflatulence was both redolent of and offered new insight into Cole Porter's lament, "Down in the Dumps on the 90th
Floor."