I lived in a town with a mill that roasted peanuts every morning. Mmmmm.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Nov 04, 2005 5:44:58 am PST #1248 of 10006
brillig
Daisy Jane - Nov 04, 2005 5:45:36 am PST #1249 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
So now I'm at work, my boss is not, and the only task I have to do is large and unpleasant and I don't wanna.
Jesse is me except my task involves calling people I don't wanna.
Jesse - Nov 04, 2005 5:47:04 am PST #1250 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You want to trade, Daisy? You can type the information from the miscellaneous printouts into an excel sheet, and I'll make your calls?
Fred Pete - Nov 04, 2005 5:47:08 am PST #1251 of 10006
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hershey, PA smells very strongly of chocolate.
Washington, DC smells mostly of hot air.
lisah - Nov 04, 2005 5:47:50 am PST #1252 of 10006
Punishingly Intricate
Wait, is that the glue factory smell? I guess it could be vinegary. Man, some days when the wind is just right, I have to hold my breath at the first eastbound stoplight.
Oh yeah I can see where it could smell gluey too. It's vinegar to me because when I first moved to town my friend (who is totally untrustworthy so no idea if it's true) told me that the big silo looking building off to the west of the highway stores vinegar.
Jesse - Nov 04, 2005 5:48:56 am PST #1253 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There's a fume smell around my train station that I finally realized smells like bleu cheese. Kind of nasty.
Calli - Nov 04, 2005 5:50:55 am PST #1254 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
We had a sulfur spring fountain next to the library in my home town. Giles' whole "books should be smelly" speech really worked for me.
sarameg - Nov 04, 2005 5:54:29 am PST #1255 of 10006
told me that the big silo looking building off to the west of the highway stores vinegar.
I've alternately been told water and oil (though I can't see how that would fly, given the risk.) I'm betting water, as there are those "your tax dollars at work" signs up for a city water & sewage project there.
Amy - Nov 04, 2005 5:57:00 am PST #1256 of 10006
Because books.
When we lived in a small town in Wyoming for a year, the smell of the sugar beet harvest in the fall was...gross. Kind of half sweet, with mulch and damp soil mixed in. Not pretty.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2005 6:00:11 am PST #1257 of 10006
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I lived in a town with a mill that roasted peanuts every morning.
Portalnd Maine often smells of baked beans due to the B&M factory, or at least it used to (I don't know if that factory is still active, and now that I think about it, I'm not even sure it's still there; must check next time through). That may not sound great, but it is loverly.
And certainly beats the everloving tar out of the way a lot of Maine towns did/do where they had/have paper mills. Bleh.