OH NOES otm - we don't have skunks where i come from, so i had no idea what one smelled like. i wonder how many other people are completely ignorant of this.
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
xp: oh god, I have a story like that
We were visiting friends in town and their condo had this awful, horrific smell in it that seemed to have no origin; everywhere we went, it was there. We thought we had tracked it down to some spots on the stairs outside their door and the husband, who was head of their condo association, typed up this long letter about cleaning up after spilling things in public spaces and taped it on the front door of the building.
After about 10 minutes of conversation we decided to leave because the smell just wouldn't go away. We walked outside and I noticed some reasonably fresh dog shit someone had neglected to pick up with a noticeable footprint in it. It jumped out at me because the footprint matched the tread on the bottom of my shoe. Basically, in our quest to find this smell that was magically following us everyone, I managed to track dog shit around their entire condo and halfway up the carpeted stairs in the common space.
Oops.
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
why do I have so many of these stories, clearly I am a disgusting beast
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
haha I was just gonna comment about how half this thread is HI DERE posts
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
the other half is me! i am disgusting but also have a lot of smell-related memories.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
I've never had to deal with skunk spray close up, mainly just smelled it in roadkill-passing; from a distance and with brief exposure, I actually kinda like it.
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
i usually like skunk smell too but as i mentioned, i am disgusting.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I don't mind dead skunk smell, if dead skunk smell is what I think it is
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT
SKUNK SPRAY IS THE WORST FUCKING THING IN THE WORLD
gagggagaggrrgrrglaaaaaaaaaa verging on retching just thinking about the time my childhood cat tangled with a skunk, that was not good times
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
they don't have to be dead!
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp says the guy who wore lysol perfume
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.sinpets.com/dogpix/20070727Coprophagia_homebreeder_Samoyed_ToaPayohVets.jpg
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKHUcenqHs
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I managed to track dog shit around their entire condo and halfway up the carpeted stairs in the common space.
I have done this. Ugggh!
― M. White, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Old skunk a ways away is okay. Fresh skunk real close will shut you down
― M. White, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
xp did the shit hit the fan?
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I have done a similar thing as the man with the dog shit in his pocket, except it was a purse that the cat peed on.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I would rather BATHE in cologne than smell a skunk up close ever again
I would rather soak for an hour in DRAKKAR than smell something sprayed by a skunk again, words cannot adequately describe the physical PRESENCE of that smell; the closest I can get is the aggressive BO you sometimes run into on public transportation that mashes so many terrible smells together that the overwhelming scent your brain can process is "stale saliva".
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
at work there was one set of cubicles which always emitted the weirdest scent. it was as if food had gone sour and someone had vomited in response to that, and then someone took Lysol to try to cover up the sour food and vomit.
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
I would rather soak for an hour in DRAKKAR
hahaha what about TWO HOURS?! you're right though -- the amalgamated stench of super old BO is what makes me retch on the most regular basis
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Good lord is that Samoyed cute.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Now that we're through mowing for the winter and the trees have dropped their leaves all over the yard, I'm very nervous about tracking dogshit into the house.
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
xp: don't smell its breath
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think the worst smell ever in my mind is associated with a mental image of a pair of very old red sweatpants that have never, ever been washed
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I lived in a total shithole when I first moved out on my own and we had tons of mice. One night my roommate and I were watching TV when we were overwhelmed by a horrible smell. After some inspection he realized it was coming from my chair. Pulling away the cushion revealed that I'd been sitting on a rotten dead mouse for a couple hours. NBD.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Mild, far-off skunk smell is sort of intriguing, but skunk roadkill is bad, (god help if you were the one to hit it) and skunk spray on a dog is worse. My poor childhood dog got sprayed in the face and we tried everything to wash it off (including tomato juice, which did nothing) but it hung on for months. She also got a face full of porcupine quills, and there is no question that a face full of quills is easier to handle than a face full of skunk musk. Not even in the same ballpark.
xps OH NOES OTM. It's just impossible to handle.
more xps
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/surprise-mom.jpg
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
One of my proudest public transit moments was when I led my inlaws between the cars on a moving train because we boarded a car on which a man who had shit his pants approximately three weeks ago and had yet to clean them was taking a nap. Even better, the car we crossed into smelled like vanilla butter cookies, no lie.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
i met this dude at a bar once 4 years ago, halloween karaoke party, he was wearing nothing but a one piece shiny gold spandex jump suit type thing as if he was some generic superhero like "solid gold man" or something, and wafting off of his body was the most confusingly awful scent.
like there's BO, and then there's the next-level cottage-cheese-in-the-desert-heat-mixed-with-pickle-brine poupourri that was drifting towards my nostrils in what i swear were visible stink lines.
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
our cat tangled with a skunk once when I was a kid, which did have a semi-funny ending because before the skunk encounter she was grey and white and afterward, when we pour several cans of tomato juice over her in a fruitless attempt to remove the smell, she ran away before we could wash her off so for several weeks she was stained dark pink and light pink
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there is def a world of difference between up-close and far-away skunk. pretty sure we had a family of them living under our house for a while - the weirdest part of the smell is the sort of burnt-rubber aspect.
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
also remy otm, that should be posted everywhere
yeah I only really remember the burnt-rubber aspect
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
another fun fact; the urban possum smells just as bad as a skunk
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
― thejenny, Friday, December 2, 2011 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
i want to go to this car
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
took me two reads to realize you said "possum"...xpost
xp I assume you mean the vanilla butter cookie car…
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
There is absolutely no way that urban 'possum smells as bad as skunk.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
and I know b/c I've picked up an urban 'possum
at a bar
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
these fuckers OTOH....
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-The-Chipmunks-Urban-Chipmunk.jpg
xp
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
urban shaved 'possum
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Possum up here ABSOLUTELY smell like skunks, to the point where I thought that skunks were running rampant in Somerville until I actually saw that it was a possum.
Of course, maybe all of the skunks here are fighting the possum, which then run out into view in an attempt to get away from themselves.
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
can I just say that I never consciously noticed how hilarious a name "Elizabeth Arden's Red Door" is for a perfume until just now
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Elizabeth Arden's Brown Door
― flexidisc, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://mouthandcaptions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/buttperfumesmall.jpg
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure that the 'possums stink (the one I handled did not) but as much as skunk? Or skunk spray?
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
When threatened or harmed, they will "play possum", mimicking the appearance and smell of a sick or dead animal. This physiological response is involuntary (like fainting), rather than a conscious act. In the case of baby opossums, however, the brain does not always react this way at the appropriate moment, and therefore they often fail to "play dead" when threatened. When "playing possum", the animal's lips are drawn back, the teeth are bared, saliva foams around the mouth, the eyes, close or half-close, and a foul-smelling fluid is secreted from the anal glands. Their stiff, curled form can be prodded, turned over, and even carried away without reaction[citation needed]. The animal will typically regain consciousness after a period of between 40 minutes and 4 hours, a process which begins with slight twitchings of the ears.[14]
just for the record, I think I could have lived a happy and productive life without ever reading the bolded phrase in the above quote
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, per the thread's recommended posting guidelines:
When we lived with Jesse, I came home from school freaking out about how our apartment smelled disgusting and was there a Plumbing problem but it was just Jesse cooking broccoli or some other cruciferous vegetable.
Another time when some family was visiting I made a big deal about how bad our fridge stunk and apologized for not cleaning it when company was coming and it turned out the horrible smell was some homemade sour kraut a family member had brought as a gift. (I understand it was good; I just have a serious aversion to sour kraut.)
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link