Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:07:57 -0700
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From: neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Healthiest way to lead an UnHealthy Vanagon lifestyle? (a
long attempt at Phrydey humour)
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"snicker snicker"
"he said tits" ..... (laughs like Beevis)
Now I'm scared as I really haven't lost my cherry on inadvertant
tasting of automotive fluids. Lots of dust, rust and assorted crap,
but no fluids.
Booze? I can't drink Gin. And that was back in HS that I overloaded on
that crap. It was a great Toga party though.
As for the response, although I'm no expert ("Hi Dr. Nick!!") isn't it
part of the "flight fight, f**k" stuff?
You know; the smell of the T-rex that wiped out your tribe? (never
mind that you were all drinking Southern Comfort). You'll never forget
the smell of that T-rex!
As for a term how about "Auto Revolt?
Dr. Nick.
On 4/13/07, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
> So one has to wonder if your habit of tasting untastable stuff has something
> to do with your 'ruined sense of smell'...?
> However I too have had the pleas... er ...um... experience of 'tasting' used
> diff oil, when a 5-speed Rabbit tranny I was bench-pressing into place
> rotated in my hands and drenched me from nose to tits. Can I say 'tits' on
> here?
> Anyway- I dunno about the dog turd but it left me with a similar reflex to
> the smell as when I once knocked off most of a bottle of Southern Comfort in
> one sitting- for years afterward the slightest whiff of either one would
> make me nearly puke. I mean an intantaneous and violent reaction...
> Makes you wonder how many other people that's happened too... (the oil, not
> the booze). Maybe we should start a club.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> p.s.: I wonder if there's a word for that smell/retch response- it's common
> enough I think; my wife can't stand the smell of tequila. If there isn't
> there at least ought to be a sniglet for it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Bange" <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Healthiest way to lead an UnHealthy Vanagon lifestyle? (a long
> attempt at Phrydey humour)
>
>
> > >
> >> So what's the "unhealthiest" thing(s) you've done, as regards your
> >> Vanagon, to keep it running, get it running, come to peace with it,
> >> make amends with it, or just "Keep The Love Alive"?
> >>
> >> Tasted every fluid on board, sometimes intentionally (to ID a puddle),
> > sometimes unintentionally (blorp! drip right in the mouth!), including the
> > grand old master of disgusting tasting automotive fluids, 90 weight gear
> > oil
> > from the differential. It was so bad I felt like sucking a dog turd to
> > get
> > the taste out of my mouth. Now I always smell before tasting. My ruined
> > sense of smell can't detect most things, but it can at least detect that
> > whiff of sulfur that says "differential oil".
> >
> > --
> > John Bange
> > '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>
--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
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