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2 unusual facts about The Smell


Kyle H. Mabson

He is an ever present figure of L.A. associated with The Smell and Sean Carnage Monday Nights.

Simo Soo

Soo prefers to perform on the floor (rather than the stage) of DIY venues such as L.A.'s The Smell and Sydney's Red Rattler.



see also

Big Stink

The Great Stink, or the Big Stink, was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste was very strong in central London.

Cordite

In the Warner Brothers cartoon Duck! Rabbit! Duck!, Daffy Duck, after being repeatedly shot by Elmer Fudd, declares, "Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers, and gunpowder, and cordite!"

Mick Rathbone

Rathbone's autobiography, The Smell of Football, was longlisted for the 2011 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

Minthe

In ancient Greece, mint was used in funerary rites, together with rosemary and myrtle, and not simply to offset the smell of decay; mint was an element in the fermented barley drink called the kykeon that was an essential preparatory entheogen for participants in the Eleusinian mysteries, which offered hope in the afterlife for initiates.

Sehnsucht

That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

Tsuga

The common name hemlock is derived from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock.