“Suddenly an acrid smell, like ozone mixed with sulfur, came from the kitchen,” Eno recounts. “Instantly Gerard Goodin was up, dashed into the kitchen and started chanting in Latin! My skin tingled with an electrical charge that I now associate with the electromagnetic ‘branes,’ as ph...
When I left the house, I took the seven candles with me that I had gotten after grandma died. I was going to light them that night after he was asleep. That evening, just before six, the smell of gardenias came into the patio. It was coming from the box the candles were in that ...
Romans are known for the weird food, like flamingo tongue, that they ate during lavish banquets. Some delicacies are stranger than most; others are more delicious.
(I gave malebranches the ability to ‘smell’ sins.) Up above, the dance goes on and the Lord’s daughter waits for Don Hector when the herald reappears, clearly disturbed. She announces a late guest: Count Chico! Count Chico, Foppish Dandy Heavily bandaged, Count Chico has managed to ...
Seeing someone from the uncanny valley tests one's own belonging, or sanity, and that's a very big deal, which is why groups of insecure teenagers commence to laughing, howling and pointing when they see, hear or smell something funny. The "uncanny valley" is where cheaters, pretenders ...
The smell (much worse than the taste) is like rotten egg, but the taste is like something fermented/rotten and salty. You can NOT open the tin that the "fish" is packed in after the fermentation process (that is bulging) indoors. You have to do that outdoors, in a plastic bag or ...
Odor judgers: You’ve gotta have some sort of fetish to want to smell somebody’s funky pits for deodorant effectiveness! Eye bank procurer: Gathering eyes and corneas for transplants and research, ya see? Fish liver sorter: Just like it sounds- with buckets for livers of different sizes...
“We argue a lot. I have to do everything because she’s useless. And all she does is complain. It’s only been three weeks and already I’m sick of being around her. Sometimes I pop off to the shop just to get a break. Never have I enjoyed going to work so much.” ...
takes days to digest the leaves. Surprising fact: The sloth’s gut produce methane but instead of being released out of the bum in the usual humorous, stinky way, the methane is absorbed into the blood. So there's absolutely no point in blaming a bad smell on these slow-moving mammals....
Dogs are built to smell A dog's sense of smell is more sensitive than that of humans. A dog's nose contains around800 different types of olfactory receptor cells, which is abouttwice as many as in humans.The olfactory bulb, the part of the brain that processes smells, makes up1.95% of...