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10-13-2004, 01:48 PM
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Observant Ruminant
Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town
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"Bad Smells" that you like...
Is there any smell that you enjoy that other people normally gag at? I've heard that smell is a powerful evoker of memory, more than any of the other senses; so that a particular smell can instantly bring back a vivid memory of some other time that you smelled that smell.
I think that this accounts, in part, for liking the smell of certain things that smell bad to other people. Here's my list: Crude oil: My dad worked maintenance at a nearby oil refinery for years, and he came home covered with it every night. And when the wind blew the wrong way, the whole town smelled like crude. So I always take a lungful whenever I drive by a refinery; reminds me of the good old days. Cowshit: My junior high school was across the street from a dairy farm. On warm days, you couldn't smell anything else. And Dad, an old school farmboy, fertilized the plants around our suburban tract home with manure. We had flies on the lawn. The other kids used to tease me about it, and all I could do was shrug. It was true. Again, it's an association with the good old days. Marigolds. Talk about strong. But our yard was full of them. I'll take a deep whiff even today. Skunk. No excuse for this; but I don't mind the smell at all. My wife thinks that an early life full of the smell of crude oil and cowshit burned out my nostrils. But as long as the skunk doesn't spray on me, I think the smell is strong but okay. What about you? Are there any "stinky" odors that you like because of good associations, or just because? |
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10-13-2004, 01:54 PM
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Submit to me, you know you want to
Location: Lilburn, Ga
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gasoline, my father worked for the pipeline and going to work with him when I was little and getting to climb the tanks at the tank farms in TX, AL, LA, and MS were some of the best times I remember. Once we settled in GA (we moved 18 times before I was 8) they didnt allow me to climb them anymore.
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10-13-2004, 01:59 PM
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Crazy
Location: Belgium
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Garlic breath, It just smells good. I get hungry when I smell it.
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Amerika by Franz Kafka “As Karl Rossman, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.” |
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10-13-2004, 02:06 PM
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Insane
Location: Washington State
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Differential gear oil and hot, muddy exhaust (I used to 4wheel a lot) Good times... Oh... and there is one kind of hairspray that smells like strawberry kind of, that my first GF used to wear 17 years ago. Even today, if I smell it, it makes me think of her.
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10-13-2004, 02:07 PM
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Junkie
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Hoppes #9 is one.
The smell of open sewers evokes strong memories of Subic Bay. Crossing the bridge over Shit River (I knew the real name once, but it's lost from my rapidly deteriorating memory) from Naval Station to Olongapo City and tossing money to the virgins under the bridge (I always tossed bills, not coins). I really, really loved being in the Philippines. Wonderfully warm and friendly people who always made me feel welcome. Most of them anyway. After Marcos was deposed, the New People's Army (just another bunch of selfish rat-bastard communists who thought that they should be the HMF'sIC in charge) began operating there. Trips to Baguio City or out to the one of the islands. A long, long 3 weeks operating in the hills around San Miguel. Quiet evenings on the beach. Rowdy nights at the Zanzibar and Marilyn's. Getting old kinda sucks.
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10-13-2004, 04:22 PM
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Insane
Location: Washington State
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 LOL!!! I was wondering how long before that came up...
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10-13-2004, 04:26 PM
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Inspired by the mind's eye.
Location: Between the darkness and the light.
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Gasoline - "Fuel is pumping engines. Burning hard loose and clean. Churning my direction. Quench my thirst with gasoline."
Gunpowder
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10-13-2004, 05:08 PM
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The Dreaded Pixel Nazi
Location: Inside my camera
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That female musky smell, you know what I'm talking baout.
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Breath on breath. Skin on skin. Loving deep. Falling fast. All right here. Let this last. Here with our lips locked tight. Baby the time is right for us... to forget about us. |
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10-13-2004, 05:16 PM
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Über-Rookie
Location: No longer, D.C
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smells I like: gasoline, gunpowder, cow manure, skunks
smells i dislike: freshly cut grass and .. hmm there are other smells i cant stand, but i cant think of them off the top of my head... my mind does a good job blocking those out  |
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10-13-2004, 06:26 PM
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Mulletproof
Location: Some nucking fut house.
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Grandma used to dump her coffee grounds and ashtrays in the trashcan. When I smell that combination in the breakroom trashcan at work, I always remember her.
And I have to admit, I have no problem sniffing it up when I rip one in the car with the windows up. |
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10-13-2004, 07:25 PM
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Still Crazy
Location: In my own time
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Paste in a pot (the kind we used to have in kindergarden in the 50's & 60's)
cow or horse manure rotten peaches engines (when they've been removed from a car/truck for repair, I love walking around them & smelling them) caves (something earthy & old & slightly scary about that smell) fresh sweat on a man's chest, neck or back newly pressed / hot-combed hair |
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10-13-2004, 07:52 PM
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Upright
Location: Houston
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frshcut grass and gasoline. Kind of wierd with the gasoline trend. I am sure there must be some sort of common reasoning behind it.
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10-13-2004, 08:24 PM
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Insane
Location: Washington State
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So at what point of acceptance does a bad smell become a not-bad smell? I mean, if we all like it, then it can't be THAT bad, eh?
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