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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:39 PM
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CONFESS!!!!!! What one odor offends you the most
For me:

Foot Odor. I can almost tolerate body odor, but I'll start gagging if I smell bad feet. I had a co-worker with the worse foot odor and he kept wearing the same old beatup shoes without socks, which made it worse. I couldn't even sit near the guy because it was so hideous!!!
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jimbo fett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:41 PM
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1. Wet dog! Ughhhh is that disgusting!
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:42 PM
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3. Chalk another one for "wet dog"
Almost as disgusting is hearing someone saying s/he LIKES that foul stench.
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jimbo fett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:41 PM
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2. Ooops, and I almnost forgot: burnt hair!!! Peeeee-yoooo!
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BritishHuman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 02:36 AM
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39. My favourite bad smell description:
"Like a grease fire on a wet dog".

Three for the price of two!
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:43 PM
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4. GOPisEvil's hat!!!!
:phew: x(
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:48 PM
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8. I've heard your Yak's fur gives off a nasty odor when yet
:shrug:
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:49 PM
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11. Naw...
His farts are even worse! x(
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:49 PM
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12. It was fine until it was defiled.
Wipe that innocent look off your face!
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:54 PM
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15. that's fondue cheese!!!
I SWEAR!!! :o
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:45 PM
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5. This will sound weird, but....burnt starch.
There was a potato chip factory upwind from campus when I was in college.

Burnt starch is an acrid, nasty smell.

Yuck.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:45 PM
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6. Mr. scarlet_owl's boots.
He has the stinkiest feet ever. :puke:

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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:47 PM
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7. Napalm in the morning.
:P
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:49 PM
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10. But... I love the smell of napalm in the morning... Smells like....
...victory.
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wysimdnwyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:48 PM
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9. B.O.
Sorry, just your general BO. Many moons ago, when I was working in a grocery store, we had an older couple who came in a couple times each month. They stank so bad that checkers would try to time their breaks so as to avoid them. This couple also had a BUNCH of cats. Being the person who stocked the pet aisle, I had to time my own work so as to be in the back during their trip down my row.

Ever since, I can't stand to be around someone who stinks. I've gone so far as to tell friends they need a shower.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:51 PM
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13. Second-hand smoke from someone with halitosis.
Especially if said person just went outside for a smoke, and are now riding the elevator with me.

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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:52 PM
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14. Any foul odor partly masked by a canned air freshener
Adding artificial scents does not prevent you from breathing in the bad stuff.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:54 PM
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16. I wasn't gonna tell this, but....
Our old dog is sometimes incontinent.
Usually not a big problem, just pick em up with some toilet paper and flush em.
The other night we came in from dinner at some friends and I stopped in the kitchen to charge up the coffeemaker for the next morning.

As I headed down the hallway towards our bedroom the stench hit me.
Hoooo MAMA! Nasha has laid a BAD one. I'm looking in her usual spots in the bedroom and adjoining office. Nothing.

"I know there's one around here somewhere, but damned if I can find it."
And my sweet, lovely wife comes walking out of the bathroom and says "Uh...Honey? It wasn't Nasha. I think the burritos gave me a little...um...gas problem."
whew

I guess the honeymoon's over?
;-)
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:55 PM
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17. Sulfer
and burnt hair. Mostly sulfer.
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Lizz612 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:55 PM
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18. The Ethanol plant down the street!
:grr:
That thing stinks to high heaven and is a health hazard and doesn't belong in a city much less a capitol of a state!! GRRR! I could rant for hours, lord knows my mother and father have! Stinky!!
:grr:
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 04:59 PM
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19. Cooked tripe.
I've only smelled it once, and that was enough. It almost made me blow chunks.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 05:00 PM
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20. Meat rendering plant
:puke:
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 10:08 PM
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35. Gut truck
Just about the same thing. My brother and I and the dog were sitting in the bed of my dad's pickup (back when that was legal in Texas) and had a gut truck pass us on the road. It was so bad it made the dog throw up. Eeeeeeeeew nasty.
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 05:55 AM
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49. PU
:puke:
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:02 PM
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21. Death...
Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 08:02 PM by m-jean03
As in, a dead and rotting mouse that chose a cozy corner in my duffel bag as its spot to expire this summer when I was camping. For the longest time I thought it was a particularly potent kind of mildew...then I found the little guy, bloated and sticky in the midwest heat, between my unused raincoat and a pair of flip-flops. RIP little guy. :puke:
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:45 PM
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28. Ever smelled a decomposed human corpse? I have, and it was hideous!
Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 08:48 PM by NightTrain

What made the experience even worse is that the decomposed corpse was my own mother.

When I couldn't get her on the phone for several days, I called the superintendent of her apartment building and asked if he'd check on her. Turned out she had been dead the whole time, her heat was cranked up to about 80 degrees, and she had completely decomposed.

On the advice of both the medical examiner and the funeral director, I never viewed my mother's remains (which I had cremated). Just as well, considering that when I went to clean out her apartment several days after they got her corpse out of there, the place still reeked of death, even though it was February and they had left the windows wide open.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 10:02 PM
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34. Ouch
I'm really sorry. That must've been terrible for you. :(
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INTELBYTES Donating Member (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:24 PM
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22. I have been working out at a dog food processing plant.
Building a fence out there. It is the most putrid smell I've ever come across. They render down chicken feathers, blood, heads, guts you name it. This morning we arrived an they had just delivered a fresh batch of wet chicken feathers. I had to shower for an hour after leaving.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:26 PM
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23. Male cat spray!!
The most horrible odor on the planet.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:30 PM
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24. I was going to say cheap perfume...
...but the smell of the drunk homeless man who was unconscious with his pants down in the bathroom of the community center today actually made me throw up.

I was trying to wake him up and I had to run away and puke. My co worker couldn't wake him up either, so we called an ambulance.

They woke him up and took him to the hospital.

A few minutes later he stornmed in and pointed at me, screaming, "Don't you ever call an ambulance for me again you fucking bitch. I had to fight to get away!"

I said, "I'm sorry, sir, but if you pass out in my building I will call an ambulance. No one dies in here on my shift."
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carols Donating Member (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:33 PM
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25. Burned popcorn
Hands down. It makes me want to gag.
Carol
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:33 PM
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26. Rotting food in a public/office fridge
Hold breath, reach in grab can of coke, slam door, run, breathe.
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Race4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:37 PM
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27. b*u*s*s*h*h*h*...
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 08:58 PM
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29. ammonia and bleach....most household clening products
Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 08:59 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:29 AM
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56. Bleach makes me ill too
I cannot use anything with Bleach in it - I don't care how clean it will make stuff. The smell alone makes me gag. Lysol, on the other hand, I can tolerate!!
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:30 AM
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57. bleach
Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 10:31 AM by Insider
ack

edit:
have you ever tried to eat at a restaurant/diner and they come around with a rag/mop with bleach? check please. that's a wrap.
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citizen snips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 09:04 PM
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30. Body oder.
x(
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 09:17 PM
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31. Someone else's farts.
Now as for my own farts...:eyes:
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 08:28 AM
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50. Success is like a fart
Only your own smells sweet.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:14 AM
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59. "Everyone likes their own brand." -Fat Bastard
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 09:22 PM
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32. Diesel fumes
absolutely horrible! maybe its because I've had too much exposure to it.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 10:00 PM
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33. The Ostrom Mushroom Farm in Nisqually Valley
during the spring season when the flats are flooded out and it's pig manure day.

In farming mushrooms, they start with horse manure. Which is earthy but tolerable really. Then they layer on steer manure. Which is a tad ripe and the fact that they dig up the previous layer to blend the redolent fermenting aromatics adds to it's lustre. But the final layer the turn into the fermenting steer and horse manure is pig crap, and that's just about as rancid a substance as has ever been experienced save one strange custom in Western Samoa.

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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 08:29 AM
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51. One strange custom in Western Samoa?
Do tell...
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Liberal_Andy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 10:13 PM
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36. tobasco sauce
sorry, can't sit next to it.
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eek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 12:35 AM
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37. car air "fresheners' esp the cardboard trees
just looking at one triggers my gag reflex
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DEM FAN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 12:41 AM
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38. Mine. Cat Urine. That Just Smells So Strong.
:-(
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 03:36 AM
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40. Lutefisk
smells like the worst kind of dirty feet imaginable, PU. :puke: :puke: :puke:
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 03:43 AM
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41. Unflushed Toilet
I hate when I go into a public bathroom and the toilet is unflushed and it stinks. :puke:
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 03:44 AM
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42. The city of Kaukauna, WI.
The paper mills there give off a horrendous odor. It's especially noticible if you are driving on Highway 41 and the wind id blowing in the right direction.


In northeast WI, we have a joke.

Why did the College Stuident from Kaukauna fart in a jar?

So he could have something to remind him of home.
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Supply Side Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 03:53 AM
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43. burning scabs
putried
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 03:56 AM
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44. Spit, Cockroaches and
Babies - I cannot stand to be around the reek of spoiled milk, vomit and shit.
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 05:09 AM
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45. Spit?
:puke:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 05:35 AM
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46. I Am 'Blessed' With a Hypersensitive Sense of Smell
and yes, spit fucking stinks. In fact, it often smells like cockroaches.
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 05:42 AM
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47. I know that spit stinks
I hate it and it makes me :puke:.
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 05:52 AM
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48. The smell of people that use Perfume as a bath
:puke:
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 08:30 AM
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52. burnt human flesh
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Tracer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:15 AM
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53. Warm Peanut Butter.
You know, when you make up a treat thing for the birds with melted peanut butter mixed with seeds?

Well Ñ the birds are gonna have to go without.

The smell makes me gag!

Which is odd, because cold peanut butter is OK Ñ and I've made a kazillion PBJs over the years.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:21 AM
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54. Kitten poop
Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 10:22 AM by MissMillie
For some reason cat poop is much more malodorous when it comes from a young cat.

(This is why kittens are so cute.... no one would put up w/ the stench if they were not so adorable.)
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:27 AM
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55. cat poop
hands down.

second: cat farts.
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:30 AM
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58. A sauerkrat onion hot dog fart is the worse
by far.
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101 Proof Donating Member (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:17 AM
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60. Cigarette smoke...
I hate being around anyone who smokes. I'd rather smell a bucket of sweat and rotten fish before cigarette smoke. :puke: :puke:
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