Worst Smells?
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I get exposed to all sorts of nasty smells on the Toronto Transit daily. Usually it's a mix of BO, Curry, cabage and diesel fumes... nasty
I just finished washing out a peanut butter jar for the recyling, and every single time I have to do that I wonder why peanut butter smells so damn horrid when it gets wet? Gak! :tongue6:
It's been my experience that if I need to take a schnozz full of anything to see if it's ok, it isn't. Milk cartons come to mind.... and anything in a plastic container lurking in the back of the fridge at work... do not, repeat NOT smell these things to see if they need throwing out. You will undoubtedly be sorry. (and nauseous)
and ya, wet peanut butter really is gross. Go on, try it. :lol:
:lol::lol::lol: My hunny just informed me that his name better not have appeared anywhere in this thread!
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Now I know a nasty smell that nothing can equal :lol:
I had a cat once, who like to chew wires, you know, the computer wires, and TV wires, and staff like that. And once he chewed the plastic off one wire, and then the creature peed on it. And the wire started burning. So can you imagine the wonderful combination of burning plastic, burning wire and burning cat's pee? I couldn't get the smell out for several days....
I had a cat once, who like to chew wires, you know, the computer wires, and TV wires, and staff like that. And once he chewed the plastic off one wire, and then the creature peed on it. And the wire started burning. So can you imagine the wonderful combination of burning plastic, burning wire and burning cat's pee? I couldn't get the smell out for several days....
Apart from the French, who smell of a vile mixture of cooked snails and stewed frogs' leg combined the with the strong, overpowering whiff of the garlic in which they cook those things in (so strong you can actually smell them in many parts of Kent), the smelliest things in the world are, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the "US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor", a vile mixture of eight chemicals with stench resembling human feces, only much stronger, designed to test the efficacy of deodorizers and air fresheners. The other one, "Who me?", is a mixture of five sulfur-containing chemicals and smells like rotting food and carcasses. "Who-me?" was designed during World War II, for use by the French Resistance to humiliate the German soldiers. Dalton of Monell has combined the worst of the two to make "Stench Soup".
Who Me? was a top secret sulfurous stench weapon developed by the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II to be used by the French Resistance against German officers. Who Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer, humiliating him and, by extension, demoralizing the occupying German forces.
The experiment was very short-lived, however. Who Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not the person who did the spraying ended up smelling as bad as the sprayee. After only two weeks it was concluded that Who Me? was a dismal failure. It remains unclear whether there was a successful Who Me? attack.
Who Me? was listed by the The Guinness Book of World Records as one of the two smelliest substances, the other being "US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor", used to test deodorants and air fresheners. [1] Pam Dalton, a cognitive psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, describes the smell of Who Me? as resembling "the worst garbage dumpster left in the street for a long time in the middle of the hottest summer ever".
A recipe for a kilogram of the same or equivalent substance in circulation on the Internet specifies 919 g of white mineral oil as an inert carrier, and 20 g of skatole, 20 g of n-butanoic acid, 20 g of n-pentanoic acid, 20 g of n-hexanoic acid and 1 g of pentanethiol as the active ingredients.
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Who Me? was a top secret sulfurous stench weapon developed by the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II to be used by the French Resistance against German officers. Who Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer, humiliating him and, by extension, demoralizing the occupying German forces.
The experiment was very short-lived, however. Who Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not the person who did the spraying ended up smelling as bad as the sprayee. After only two weeks it was concluded that Who Me? was a dismal failure. It remains unclear whether there was a successful Who Me? attack.
Who Me? was listed by the The Guinness Book of World Records as one of the two smelliest substances, the other being "US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor", used to test deodorants and air fresheners. [1] Pam Dalton, a cognitive psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, describes the smell of Who Me? as resembling "the worst garbage dumpster left in the street for a long time in the middle of the hottest summer ever".
A recipe for a kilogram of the same or equivalent substance in circulation on the Internet specifies 919 g of white mineral oil as an inert carrier, and 20 g of skatole, 20 g of n-butanoic acid, 20 g of n-pentanoic acid, 20 g of n-hexanoic acid and 1 g of pentanethiol as the active ingredients.
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I guess I should not tell people my very french last name then....oh and my obsession with garlic?
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