The worst smell

[cs]

Some other threads and the recent broken bone has reminded me of the worst smell ever.

Way back when, when I broke my tibea plateu (knee), I had to spend 13 weeks in a cast from my hips to my toes, and this was the old fashioned plaster of paris cast.

Well anyway after gaining my freedom from the plaster of paris, I couldn't wait to get home and wash that leg. Oh, the stench. Beleive me, it took more than one shower to get rid of that smell.

Chad

[Gary E]

You ever smell the damn fruit that falls off a Ginko Tree?... we had one of them at the grade school.

Ohh if I'd only found the hatchet at home...

[uncas]

I'm calling in the professionals...
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/images/VULTURES.JPG

[Victor]

Had a wet rug, too good to throw out. Smelled like death!

[joejapan]

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GaryE, no,no,no, don't touch that ginko tree ! :eek:

That fruit, or, more correctly that nut, is a delicacy over here in Japan. smile.gif

Pick up a bunch of 'em, put 'em on a cookie sheet and pop 'em in the oven and roast 'em 'till they turn brown. Take 'em out to cool, open them and they'll look like green jelly beans. ;) Delicious !

They're also used to flavor cooked rice, as an ingredient, and are also added to cooked salads and steamed vegetable dishes. Good Stuff !

Well, the trees do smell a LITTLE ! :D

[Gary E]

Hey, if I coulda found the hatchet when I wuz 9 or 10 yurs old... I'd a chopped the damn thing down so fast it wuld of been worth a LOT of detention...

Come get that damn tree if ya want it, that is IF some other kid didnt do it first...

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

How about the smell of the shiit house on board a tuna boat? tongue.gif

[Bob Cleek]

Ask Alan Hyde about his Eskimo girlfriend! :D

[JimD]

'Scuse me. Thought this was the Dick Cheney thread.

[brad9798]

Or a rotting corpse of a week ... in hot weather ... hmm, hmm... that will give you some humility ...

:eek: :(

[joejapan]

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Didn't we just do two different threads on the worst smell ?

Maybe I'm just repeating myself in my memory.

[L.W. Baxter]

One time when I was a kid we had a couple dead hogs lying on a burn pile in the middle of summer. The'd bloated, of course, and the sun had fried their skin to a crisp.

My brother and I decided to poke one with a stick.

Turned out they were solid maggots inside, maggots just poured out like a nightmare bowl of oatmeal. That was the worst smell!

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Boy this is a great thread... maggots and everything tongue.gif tongue.gif tongue.gif

[brad9798]

I'll take rotting food over rotting flesh ANY time!

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Especially if it's your own flesh that's rotting ;)

[brad9798]

Whatever dingbat ... my flesh is pure ... TOTALLY pure ... how is your reflection, PMJ?

;)

[Zimmer]

Maggots are good citizens. They do us a service by breaking down putrid flesh. What would we do if not for maggots?

And maggots are now in vogue in the medical profession, most often the #1 choice for wound debridement and general tidying up of festering sores. smile.gif

[Alan D. Hyde]

Actually, Bob, that would be Peter Freuchen's girlfriend.

Am I the only guy here that read all those adventure type books as a boy?

For an introduction to some fascinating reading by a splendid author, see---

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/peterfre.htm

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Alan