what is that horrible smell

i usually like skunk smell too but as i mentioned, i am disgusting.

I don't mind dead skunk smell, if dead skunk smell is what I think it is

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

they don't have to be dead!

xp says the guy who wore lysol perfume

http://www.sinpets.com/dogpix/20070727Coprophagia_homebreeder_Samoyed_ToaPayohVets.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKHUcenqHs

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!

Old skunk a ways away is okay. Fresh skunk real close will shut you down

xp did the shit hit the fan?

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.

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".

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.

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

Good lord is that Samoyed cute.

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.

xp: don't smell its breath

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

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.

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

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/surprise-mom.jpg

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.

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.

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

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.

also remy otm, that should be posted everywhere

yeah I only really remember the burnt-rubber aspect

another fun fact; the urban possum smells just as bad as a skunk

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, December 2, 2011 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i want to go to this car

took me two reads to realize you said "possum"...xpost

xp I assume you mean the vanilla butter cookie car…

lol

There is absolutely no way that urban 'possum smells as bad as skunk.

and I know b/c I've picked up an urban 'possum

at a bar

these fuckers OTOH....

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-The-Chipmunks-Urban-Chipmunk.jpg

xp

urban shaved 'possum

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.

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

Elizabeth Arden's Brown Door

http://mouthandcaptions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/buttperfumesmall.jpg

I'm sure that the 'possums stink (the one I handled did not) but as much as skunk? Or skunk spray?

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, 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.)

boiling cabbage is among the worst smells

Here is my urban 'possum

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/19/104107279_ebd0f692b0_z.jpg?zz=1http://farm1.staticflickr.com/35/104107291_5cfaf019fc_z.jpg?zz=1

I'm happy that I remembered to take pics.

xp - I am lucky I didn't get secreted on that night.

xp - It's a good thing I moved out before I kim chee season started.

I was walking home from the bar when I found that 'possum and I sort of wish I had been blacking out so that I could have found the terrible surprise of a string of pics of me handling that guy on my phone.

Some old dogs (particularly males) have troublesome anal glands that have to be expressed. It's wise to do this outside, and downwind of your house, and discard your latex gloves and clothing into a trash fire, and scrub down with something like gasoline...

Ditto cats!

did any of your parents ever make seaweed? boiling seaweed is THE WORST SMELL.