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WhataBildeberger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:39 PM
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Poll question: Most Offensive Odor?
C'mon folks - what makes the biggest stink?
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:40 PM
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1. you forgot cat piss
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:39 PM
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24. I did
and somehow I also managed to forget ferret musk, despite the presence of a stinky, stinky cage 8 feet to my left. I've grown inured.

My bad.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:40 PM
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2. You forgot...............
conservatives.
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:41 PM
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3. You forgot...
REPUBLICANS! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:44 PM
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4. short bus presidents
yeah, they stink
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:22 PM
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31. Damn, DS1!
When does that bug come outta your ass for air? Or does having your head up there too give it a fresh internal supply?

:7
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comsymp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:50 PM
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5. There's some kind of shrub
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 08:52 PM by comsymp
:evilgrin: no, a different shrub/hedge bush- red tip, some kind of laurel?- that blooms in late spring- has these clumps of small white blossoms which smell very much like carrion with a sweet undertone. Makes me literally gag.

ON EDIT: WAB/SBP, you know the ones I'm talking about- they're all over the Triangle, esp. Raleigh. Haven't seen (smelled) nearly as many since we moved to Asheboro.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:18 PM
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16. I've gotta admit,
I'm stumped. :shrug:

There are lots of foul smells to be had in the Triangle. The dairy farmers around here, for instance, grow their own corn for feed, and they fertilize with these things that look like gigantic lawn sprinklers that shoot out a hundred-plus foot stream of sewage treatment plant waste or farm lagoon effluent through the air. The stink is mighty.
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CarlBallard Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:52 PM
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6. sewage treatment plant
There's junction of some sort (not a plant but some sort of filtration sight) out back. Whenever I'm in my yard on a hot day, it stinks to high heaven. Whenever I complain to the County, they say they'll fix it but they never do. Basically I breathe through my mouth and hope for rain all summer. And my yard is unkept anyway so it's not that big of a deal that I'm never there.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:56 PM
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7. You forgot
VOMIT!

Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!

:puke:
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sugus Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:10 PM
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10. You have stolen it of my tongue.
Vomit of fermented republican cheese mixed with an alcohol drink and crude egg.




Do you imagine this hot atmosphere? Mmmmm
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:55 PM
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27. That is so gross! I'm gagging!
:puke:
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:01 PM
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8. Living near a natural gas 'factory'
Or power plant, or whatever they call it -- those things give off THE most foul stench ....



:hippie:
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:11 PM
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12. I also forgot
"paper plant."

I'll never forget the distinctive signature scent of Petersburg, where the paper plant and rubber plant coexist in the same fetid square mile. Hold yer nose drivin' through.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:08 PM
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9. Eau de Freeper
Unbathed freeper on a hot summer day.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:11 PM
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11. Ever smell a meat-packing/rendering plant?
I worked almost right next door to one. I know what death smells like. :puke:
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searchingforlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:15 PM
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13. hypocracy
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foxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:16 PM
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14. A chicken slaughter house
nastiest smell I ever came across
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:16 PM
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15. Burnt Microwave Popcorn, and
people who wear so much cologne you can still taste it a half an hour after they've left the room.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:19 PM
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18. Ohhhhh...that damned popcorn!!!
It is insidious!! It goes everywhere - even to other floors via the elevator. At least that is the case in my office.

At home, I'd rather "undercook" my popcorn than burn it.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:19 PM
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sanctimony
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:23 PM
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19. *SNARF*
SNARFITTY, SNARF-SNARF SNARKY SNARF SNARF!
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:19 PM
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17. poultry farm
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:29 PM
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20. Durian, a fruit of Southeast Asia
To smell it is to loath it.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:41 PM
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25. No. More offensive is an abatoir on a hot summer day in the south.
I built a bridge on US-441 just north of Douglas, Georgia in the summer of 1976 (or so). It was right across the highway from the Douglas Abatoir. It was enough to put a buzzard off his feed!
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Philosophy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:30 PM
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21. Rotting flesh in a sewage treatment plant
When I was in college we went on a field trip to the local sewage plant and I foolishly stuck my head over the top of a vat to see what was inside inside...and it was full of dead rats! Instantly lost my lunch.
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Yaoi_Huntress_Earth Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:35 PM
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22. Human Body Odor
If you're a girl geek like me, then you're bound to come across some unwashed males. Yucko.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:37 PM
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23. I'll grant you surely
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 09:37 PM by short bus president
that man-funk is bad, but worse than rotting flesh? Do you live in a "gangrene cluster?"
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:04 PM
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28. Yaoi_Huntress_Earth, a story my dermatologist told me:
Napoleon had been gone for months, on a Bu$h-like hegemony campaign. He was returning to Paris and wrote Josephine:

Dear J.,

I will be home in two weeks. Don't bathe!

N.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:41 PM
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26. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the smell of
pus from an infected wound. Pus gives fresh diarrhea splattered over the side of a toilet stall a run for it's money. I've dealt with both, wearing a surgical mask stuffed with sliced lemon wedges crammed between your nose and the mask really helps!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:08 PM
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29. My husband's feet. I dare you to come over after he's put in 12 hours of
overtime in his workboots...I love the man but, :puke:
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:15 PM
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30. Dear god, patchouli...
in large doses.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:35 PM
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36. Yeah, and Patchouli, sweat, and pot residue...
Kid got on the elevator with me last fall, i bailed at the next floor and took the stairs.

Kids, Patchouli will NOT "hide" the aroma of dope smoke, and it is NOT a substitute for bathing...

used to work with a guy who I told "Nick, you gotta either smoke weaker weed for lunch or find some stronger patchouli "(he reeked like a mouldy haymow anyway...)
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:43 PM
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32. DAMN! Too late to edit!
I forgot WaB had a smiley to go with this poll:
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chaska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:14 PM
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33. A few more....
Chicken processing plant in summer.

Limburger cheese.

Fermented tofu (it's used as a flavoring ingredient in Chinese cuisine - pretty foul).

I once had a - and I'm not exagerating here - a nine-foot long snake crawl through a crack in the floor and die under my bathtub. I finally figured out the problem after weeks of living with the smell. When I pulled the snake out it was rotting to the point of liquifaction. As I pulled it from the hole in the floor while standing on the basement floor, it dripped rotting snake and maggots all over me. Suck on that 'un!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:22 PM
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34. Repiglican politics...
The stench will knock you out cold!
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:30 PM
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35. The worst
Warning: really grotesque:


As a medical student, doing forensic pathology sounded cool. I used to love Quincy! Then we got the case of the couple that was murdered and stuffed in a sewage tank. And discovered several weeks later. And we had to do the autopsies. It was beyond belief. You wanted to pass out just standing in the hallway. Remember the face masks with the minty goo they wore in "Silence of the Lambs"? That stuff didn't begin to make a dent in this stench.

So, I am going with "rotting flesh".
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 07:26 AM
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37. Should be sewage/cooked cabbage
Same smell
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BritishHuman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 04:29 PM
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38. My "favourite" bad smell expression
Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 04:29 PM by BritishHuman
is "Like a grease fire on a wet dog".

Three bad smells for the price of two! Not only do you get the classic "grease fire" and family favourite "wet dog", but we'll throw in - free! - "burning dog hair".

Excuse me, my nose hairs went brittle and snapped off just thinking about it.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 04:42 PM
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39. would it be childish
to say Repugs?
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