Smell of Stench

[Andy Le Blanc]

What is it with skunk piss, rotten meat, spoiled garlic, burnt rubber...
I heard one fella at super-ette call'em "wood pussy"....

My wife and I were gab'in after I got home from last nights gig,

Heard a critter squaking under the house, and then OH MY .... the stink.

Its already faddng but I gots to get down the cellar and spray it out with
anti stink stink spray, burning eye's trying to open the windows...
what a wonderful treat..... mmmmmm, yummy.

[Buschman]

Thats how my gear used to smell when I got home from a gig! Ha. Now all the smokers have to go outside around here. I like it.

[dartanion]

Skunk spray is loaded with thiol and mercaptan compounds, which just one part per billion will stink very strongly!

[Andy Le Blanc]

no...... ya don't say.....

[dartanion]

There is a reagent that we used in molecular biological assays call beta mercapto enthanol, which smelled very strongly of raw sewage! Yummy stuff even in microliter quantities

[David Root]

dartanion is right. Must have a BS in chemistry like me!

[Andy Le Blanc]

Stink-a-rific, one of the more wonderful enjoyment's as we travel through life.
Got creative in school, used to bait in skunk with scrapes from the cafeteria,
right out the window of the targeted person, why does it smell like skunk all the time?,
used to hide around the corner with a big plastic bucket, drop the trash can
over the critter and give it a few whacks to get it to squirt, you smell skunk?,
what skunk?, one day the campus security caught us, no sir nothing just making noise,
walked away and left the bucket upside down where it was.

The poor guy was out from work for a week.

[skyboltone]

Ok, Darren and David, what's the name of the stuff that smells like rotting corpses. Perxxxxx or paraxxxxxx or peroxxxxxxx.

Teacher had some in Hight School Organic Chem. Wow, I'll take skunk anyday.

[Sonny ReVerb]

Ok, Darren and David, what's the name of the stuff that smells like rotting corpses...

Cadaverine. They use it to train cadaver dogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaverine

I feel for you, Andy. We've got two feral cat houses in our backyard for our outdoor cats to winter in. When they weren't using them this winter, I discovered a possum living in one of them. This spring, we had a wonderful aroma wafting on the breeze. After some investigation, I found not one, but two dead possums - one in each house. Maybe they ate too much of our cat's food.

[Noel Grassy]

I had a succulent/cactus variety a friend gave me. Of the genus Stapeliad
. It's flowers put off the distinct aroma of rotting meat. Apparently
the plant thrives in the North African desert where pollination can not be
performed by the typical bee. It must rely on the carrion fly to carry the
pollen from one flower to the next. The genius behind these tiny eco systems that exist throughout our planet is beyond my comprehension.

from Wiki: "Stapeliads are often regarded as a climax group within the family because of their often structurally complex flowers. Certain aspects of these reproductive parts mirror the pollination systems in the Orchid family and represent a case of parallel evolution though both groups are quite unrelated and have developed similar, though not identical means to achieve the ultimate goal of pollination and therefore reproduction. Most stapeliads use flies as pollinators, that are attracted to odours resembling dung or rotting meat, emanating from the flowers. Many of the flowers also bear some physical resemblance to rotting animal carcasses, leading to their popular name of Carrion Flowers."

Noel Grassy.

[Colossal]

I had a succulent/cactus variety a friend gave me. Of the genus Stapeliad. It's flowers put off the distinct aroma of rotting meat. Apparently the plant thrives in the North African desert where pollination can not be performed by the typical bee. It must rely on the carrion fly to carry the pollen from one flower to the next. The genius behind these tiny eco systems that exist throughout our planet is beyond my comprehension.

from Wiki: "Stapeliads are often regarded as a climax group within the family because of their often structurally complex flowers. Certain aspects of these reproductive parts mirror the pollination systems in the Orchid family and represent a case of parallel evolution though both groups are quite unrelated and have developed similar, though not identical means to achieve the ultimate goal of pollination and therefore reproduction. Most stapeliads use flies as pollinators, that are attracted to odours resembling dung or rotting meat, emanating from the flowers. Many of the flowers also bear some physical resemblance to rotting animal carcasses, leading to their popular name of Carrion Flowers."

Noel Grassy.

Fellow Stapeliad-philes unite! You're all right Noel! We've had one for going on 7 years I guess. It flowers vigorously ever year and man, on a hot Texas day, wow, hard to keep your lunch down if you are unfortunate enough to be down wind. My wife dared me to smell it up close and personal once...I did it (not being able to turn down the double-dog dare) and jeez, just like hot road kill. The flies love it and are dutiful pollinators. The odor has an almost buttery, warm quality to it, not in a good way mind you, but the silky feeling you sense when you smell buttered popcorn....but if the popcorn was rotting meat with butter on it

Andy: I'm <i>still</i> laughing about "wood pussy". I'm going to tell my wife about that; she'll get a real kick out of it.

[dartanion]

Smells like teen spirit

[Andy Le Blanc]

Mmmmmm, Warm and buttery.

[Structo]

Maybe it's just me, but why in the world would you want something that smelled like a dead body in your yard?

I admit it has a pretty flower but I try to avoid smelling dead things if at all possible.

The neighbors are going to start thinking there is a serial murderer in the neighborhood.

[KellyBass]

Woodpussy is the name of a local punk band...crazy kids...

My favorite local band name is "Rumpled Foreskin". Classic!

Still, the worst smell to me is the smokin', burnin' resistor.