# Blooming Obscenity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007 "2006-10-11T01:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/21 "2006-10-11T03:21:41Z")
So this old lady just played a great prank on you? Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/22 "2006-10-11T03:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] On the way, and thanks! [/QUOTE] Will post them as soon as received. Use the email link in my profile or just click on my name in the message header. ---
**Author:** ![toadbriar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@toadbriar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadbriar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/23 "2006-10-11T05:44:48Z")
[QUOTE=Rufus Xavier] Or you could buy one here for about $8: > **[Search: 241 results found for "African Starfish Flower"](https://www.logees.com/search?q=African+Starfish+Flower&options%5Bprefix%5D=last)** > > Logee's Plant Store - Indoor and outdoor tropical plants for sale online. Discover exciting, new fruiting, rare and tropical plants at Logee's Greenhouses. [/QUOTE] I know one would not try to use “Smells Like A Real Dead Guy!” as a promotional theme, but I am nevertheless amused by the contrast between the OP’s description and the sales blurb on the store site. **Scylla** , you sillyhead. It’s a _Starfish Flower_, not a _Hairy Sloughing Zombie Vulva Flower_. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/24 "2006-10-11T15:08:40Z")
Hey, I have one of those plants! My neighbor gave it to me. But all of us in the neighborhood who have them have them outside on screened patios. That would explain why I never noticed a smell. The one she gave me had 5 blooms that came out all at once. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/25 "2006-10-11T15:25:53Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] So this old lady just played a great prank on you? Awesome! [/QUOTE] Seriously, finally cashing in on a five year set up? Burrrrrrrnnnn! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/26 "2006-10-11T17:39:15Z")
Drip some blood into it and let us know what happens next! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/27 "2006-10-11T17:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] About five years ago this nice little old lady that comes to our office brought me a small aloe looking plant. She said her mother had given it to her forty years ago, and it had very beautiful blooms so she gave me a cutting to bring some life to my office. …snip… It stinks so bad, I want to cut if off. People come into my office and look at me like I just farted. The idea that this thing took five years to bloom, and the novelty of it makes me unable to do it. So, I just worked all day with this slutty looking corpse of a flower behind me. Nature’s wild. [/QUOTE] FEED ME - I’M HUNGRY!!! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/28 "2006-10-12T02:31:16Z")
I wanna see the flower in Scylla’s office. Bump! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/29 "2006-10-12T06:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Seriously, finally cashing in on a five year set up? Burrrrrrrnnnn! [/QUOTE] Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/30 "2006-10-12T13:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I wanna see the flower in Scylla’s office. Bump! [/QUOTE] Still waiting for pics. I wonder if the flower got him? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/31 "2006-10-12T19:01:17Z")
In Hawaii, it used to be a very popular border plant in gardens. It would attract swarms of flies. Nowadays, we associate it with gardens tended by little old ladies. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/32 "2006-10-13T00:57:58Z")
Got the picks sent for real now. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/33 "2006-10-13T01:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=astro] Just email them to me and I’ll throw them up for you. [/QUOTE] I don’t think that odors can be attached to emails, so that may not be necessary. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/34 "2006-10-13T01:18:55Z")
Scylla’s flower [Flower pic 1](http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01740qz0.jpg) [Flower pic 2](http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01747pl4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/35 "2006-10-13T01:43:49Z")
So that’s what a dead fat snootch looks like. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/36 "2006-10-13T01:46:59Z")
If anyone wants to know how to host pics for an in a SDMB thread [here’s a short quide.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391930) It’s free & very easy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/37 "2006-10-13T02:29:13Z")
That is, bar none, the strangest looking flower I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/38 "2006-10-13T02:53:21Z")
While reading this thread earlier, I looked over my shoulder to see what was on TV. Who says men can’t multi-task? Anyway, I was tuned to HDTV; an episode of _Equator_ was on and they were discoursing on this very flower, or one very similar. The one on TV looked like the ones in Scylla’s pictures. I think this was some sort of supernatural thing that can’t be explained by science and I still have cold chills racing all over my elderly body. I can’t survive much more of this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/39 "2006-10-13T02:55:16Z")
[QUOTE=astro] Scylla’s flower [Flower pic 1](http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01740qz0.jpg) [Flower pic 2](http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01747pl4.jpg) _…this slutty looking corpse of a flower behind me…_ [/QUOTE] Whoa. I’ve never seen one of those before. It was worth the wait. 🙂 Must be a real conversation piece around your desk. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007/40 "2006-10-13T03:24:44Z")
Thanks **astro**! That’s very nice of you to help me out with this. I cut the bloom off today. It just made my office stink too bad. I have it here, at home, in a baggy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-obscenity/376007.md?page=3)