Re: Identity by smell (was Re:silly walks department)

From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 17:58:44 MDT


James Rogers wrote:
>
> From: "John Calvin" <mercurial@disinfo.net>
> >
> > I do have a couple of friends that I am sure I could recognize by smell.
>
> I can identify all of my female companions by smell; every girl smells
> slightly different. It is like any other identity marker. In fact, I
> think that most people could accurately identify individuals they are
> intimately familiar with using any one of their five senses. I would
> expect that the same applies to males, but I've never been in a position
> to know :^)

This reminds me of the time I saw a bunch of college freshmen,
fraternity pledges, blindfolded and standing in line outside a
topless-bottomless joint. Turns out it was a hazing prank... fratrat
leads the pledge in, sits him down, asks him, "Can you tell where you
are?" "I dunno, but the smell is familiar..."

Sure beats alcohol poisoning!

--
Doug Jones
Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace
http://www.xcor-aerospace.com



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