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What is the worst smell you have ever had the displeasure to experience?


Rotten potatoes are pretty bad. The kind you touch and your finger goes right through them. :eek: YICKS!!

My sister's cat's farts. :eek:

Baby gravy FTW!!!!!

The smell of Malathion or Lime-Sulphur spray.
Both smell absolutely awful and even make me sick to the stomach! Blech!

The worst smell I have ever experienced was while taking a tour at a certain research university. Part of the tour went into the animal research area and included the room where they take all the rats after they have been euthanized. So picture 100's of rotting giant rat carcasses and the smell thereof.

Thanks for the mental image! :rolleyes:

The odor emitted when you you uncap the septic system on a boat that has sat in the Texas heat for a long period of time is not at all pleasant. Esp. if the systems vent is clogged and pressure has built up in the system and the damn thing soaks you in human waste when you uncap it. A literal fountain of feces straight in the face. I can assure that in my case it resulted in immediate violent regurgitation, followed almost immediately by diving overboard. Luckily did not hit the dock, only pure, clean, cool, cleansing, water. Sadly the water was unable to wash the memory of this event from my mind. Hopefully time will, but I doubt it.

The odor emitted when you you uncap the septic system on a boat that has sat in the Texas heat for a long period of time is not at all pleasant. Esp. if the systems vent is clogged and pressure has built up in the system and the damn thing soaks you in human waste when you uncap it. A literal fountain of feces straight in the face. I can assure that in my case it resulted in immediate violent regurgitation, followed almost immediately by diving overboard. Luckily did not hit the dock, only pure, clean, cool, cleansing, water. Sadly the water was unable to wash the memory of this event from my mind. Hopefully time will, but I doubt it.

So now being involved in politics wouldn't phase you? :p :D

Kind of tight between a porty-potty on a hot day, and I-95 in far northern North Carolina, where the hog farms seem to always be upwind.

So now being involved in politics wouldn't phase you? :p :D

Kind of tight between a porty-potty on a hot day, and I-95 in far northern North Carolina, where the hog farms seem to always be upwind.

No, I was able to was this off, not sure that politician stank is washable.:D

Close tie to hog farm is a chicken farm on a hot, still, humid day! Neither one is pleasant.

He's over 1,000 miles away, but Jsharr could do the midwest a favor and use some Gold Bond powder once in a while.

Cyrus Lowe 97th, will you settle for GoldShclagger?

If it'll deaden my olfactory receptors, then send it on up this way!

No, I was able to was this off, not sure that politician stank is washable.:D

Close tie to hog farm is a chicken farm on a hot, still, humid day! Neither one is pleasant.

oh yeah. Hog farms. Last time I was in France I happened to hike by one and OH MAN!!! Only pleasant thing was I knew there was no way I was going to get a old or stuffy nose anytime soon. :D

Close tie to hog farm is a chicken farm on a hot, still, humid day! Neither one is pleasant.

I've got an in-law who has a hog farm. When asked about the smell he says:

"Smells like money to me."

Can't be all bad, the hogs don't seem to mind. :)

I guess my worst is the time I turned the wrong breaker at my g-ma & g-pa's house when we were staying there on weekends one summer when they were away. I was "supposed" to hit the breaker for the hot water heater, but the following weekend we got there, realized I had hit the breaker for the deep freezer.

So the smell of a deep freezer that sat in Florida summer for a week. All the meat and everything in there spoiled, rotted and the thing was FILLED with maggots.

We had to clean it out and try to salvage the freezer.

The bait bucket the neighbors' kids left on the dock. Georgia sun baked red wigglers and crawdads, awh, bit noisome.

Also not fond of the smell of a tooth being vaporized by a dental drill, although the sound may be worse.

What is the worst smell you have ever had the displeasure to experience?

On one of the MUPs here, it passes right by a meat packing plant. Seriously, in this kind of weather, it's the worst possible smell ever. Makes me want to puke... gives me the motivation to pedal faster, though. :rolleyes:

The vault where 10,000 flesh eating beatles are eating away at a dolphin carcass

It wasn't always this way, but I'd have to say. . .

tequila. :o

Diving in the East River on a hot August day two summers ago.

Riding along, motorpacing cars in Amish country, and getting stuck behind every roadie's worst nightmare: the Volkswagen Rabbit diesel. This is a car that, after 25 years of being beaten into use every day, smells worse than all the beer farts after the St. Patrick's day parade and the Nathan's hot-dog eating contest combined! Not pleasant, and definitely in need of euthanisation...

The catfish bait my dad and uncles used when I was a kid. It was basically rotted cow brains mixed with Limburger cheese. It was horrible, but it worked.

The catfish bait my dad and uncles used when I was a kid. It was basically rotted cow brains mixed with Limburger cheese. It was horrible, but it worked.

Did he call it "Mad Cow with Cheese"? *dunks and runs for cover*

Brakeless fixies skidding down the Zoobomb hill.

Coagulated chicken blood used for catfishing.

The rotten deer corpse we had to pass. I started gagging and my friend ducked for cover.

FALSE ALARM!!@! *snickers*

Hmmm... a skunk going off very nearby. And then having the dog (being the nearby target) come bolting into the house ranks way up there. [pun intended]

Hog farms are really bad, too. Rode past many on RAGBRAI and early in the AM, it's not what you want to be inhaling deeply as you pedal hard! I also heard the "smell of money" phrase used many times about that particular odor.

Being downwind from a rendering service or riding at 85% of max by a farmer who started spraying his field with anhydrous ammonia.

At least I could still breathe downwind from the rendering factory.

The smell of the Spring Paper mill in Roaring Spring, PA in the 70's.

Field dressing a deer that's been shot in the gut.

the inside of a fake leg

The smell of the Spring Paper mill in Roaring Spring, PA in the 70's.

There's one in Spring Grove too- is that nearby?

This rotting Oppossum that was on the side of the road for 3 months....3 months of nearly no rain.

It was this nasty disgusting reeking festering mess of pure foul odor and disease. The smell alone was enough to take any fight out of me and drop me into immediate vomit mode.

This was eventually a part of my training regimen....to learn to vomit without losing fine control of the bike (I'm being serious...during my commute I couldn't afford to waste 10 mins puking at the side of the road, so I just leaned over and got it over with).

My personal methane output after a day of subsisting on Ghu and clif bars on a ride.....

Lots of sulfur and acid in it!:eek:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/theantidote/09cbc9fa.gif

Hmmm... a skunk going off very nearby. And then having the dog (being the nearby target) come bolting into the house ranks way up there. [pun intended]
I forgot about that one...we had almost same experience when I was a kid.

Dog chased a frightened skunk right up to our front door where he and the front door were heavily sprayed. It took days for the door area to recover and a week or two and MANY baths for the poor dog to recover.

The aroma of a light-hearted Foo-thread gone all serious with the intellectual-muscle-flexing of someone self-smitten with personal intellectual prowess and alleged intellectual superiority based on much book-learning and (apparently) not much RL experience. <holdin' nose>

^linkee^

I forgot about that one...we had almost same experience when I was a kid.

Dog chased a frightened skunk right up to our front door where he and the front door were heavily sprayed. It took days for the door area to recover and a week or two and MANY baths for the poor dog to recover.

What did you end up using to get the smell off the dog? I've heard of lots of things like give it baths in tomato juice, mustard, etc. Any truth to that stuff or is it just wives tales?

....80 year old having a GI bleed.....

What did you end up using to get the smell off the dog? I've heard of lots of things like give it baths in tomato juice, mustard, etc. Any truth to that stuff or is it just wives tales?

I honestly don't remember. I'm sure my parents did that. I probably wasn't more than 6 or 7 at the time.

My neighbor after he hung/**** himself.

The aroma of a light-hearted Foo-thread gone all serious with the intellectual-muscle-flexing of someone self-smitten with personal intellectual prowess and alleged intellectual superiority based on much book-learning and (apparently) not much RL experience. <holdin' nose>

But I was having sooooo much fun with his thread!!:D;)

My neighbor after he hung/**** himself.

Yeah, the younger brother of my best friend in HS did this after he left the Navy in the mid-eighties. Left behind a pregnant wife, with no note, on the 4th of July.... That stunk in many ways.... :(

:cry:

What did you end up using to get the smell off the dog? I've heard of lots of things like give it baths in tomato juice, mustard, etc. Any truth to that stuff or is it just wives tales?

Having had this happen 3 times in as many months last fall (the pesky stinker took up residence in my back yard and the supposedly smart German Shepherd just couldn't quite get the message to not mess with it!), I tried several things.

One was a commercial "Skunk-Off" product. Fair success. Fair to good after the second washing (on one spray). Used that twice, but it never really worked.

Then I did some googling and found a recommendation for a concoction of warm water, dishwashing soap (for hand washing, not dishwasher soap) and vinegar. This mix worked pretty well if you got the dog freshly sprayed. But do it outside because when the dog shakes, you'll get the mix all over the garage and when the liquids evaporate, you'll have this white pasty power all over everything!

Using this mixture, the moron was able to sleep in our room that same night once I dried him and either we were used to a faint residue or it worked very well.

Of course, the best cure is to keep the stupid dog from "playing" with the little critter altogether, but....

There's one in Spring Grove too- is that nearby?

No, Roaring Spring is in Blair County, SSE of Altoona.

I work in an ER... the possibilities are endless.

Some bad ones: Outhouses so long uncleaned they smell of amonia, burning human flesh, some of the rotten things I have come accross doing asbestos abatement in little confined spaces where humans almost never set foot, apple pie that my grandpa forgot to put in the fridge a week prior to me finding it, hazardous chemical fumes of any number of types that I work with, and irritant smoke for respirator testing that I huffed a big whiff of for the hell of it.

BTW, Siu. I think this thread needs to be nominated for the Foo award for "Best Title" when we do the awards at the end of the year. :beer:

I need to add one: my roommate's goddamn fake nail crap. It infiltrates the house, and it's the kind of smell you don't get used to. Oh, and she's doing it right now. I'm leaving. :mad: