# It tastes like someone took a shit in my mouth

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-tastes-like-someone-took-a-shit-in-my-mouth/560622 "2010-11-14T04:37:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-tastes-like-someone-took-a-shit-in-my-mouth/560622/21 "2010-11-15T16:34:19Z")

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May I recommend _Lucky Jim_ by Kingsley Amis if you can get hold of a copy. There’s a very funny description of how the hero wakes up after having emptied his boss’s liquor cabinet the evening before. Among other things “a little creature of the night had used his mouth first as a latrine and then as a mausoleum. He didn’t feel good”. 😛

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-tastes-like-someone-took-a-shit-in-my-mouth/560622/22 "2010-11-15T16:46:09Z")

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Hijack…

I love that passage - the preceding part is:

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> Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eye-balls again.

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**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-tastes-like-someone-took-a-shit-in-my-mouth/560622/23 "2010-11-15T22:09:30Z")

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> [@Koxinga](#):
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> You say you have no tonsils, so this probably doesn’t apply – but the worst taste I ever had was the day after I started taking antibiotics for an abcess that had developed behind one of my tonsils. The nasty thing burst while I was sleeping. It didn’t taste so much like shit as that something had died back there, which in a way I suppose it had (if you count bacteria). Gah, that was nasty.

I had a tooth abscess once that ruptured. Those are supposed to smell extremely awful but I didn’t notice anything. Usually things crawl up one’s ass to die but some furry creatures may not have gotten the memo. 🙂

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**Author:** ![silk1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@silk1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silk1976)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-tastes-like-someone-took-a-shit-in-my-mouth/560622/24 "2010-11-17T16:37:03Z")

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I’ve found that if I brush or use mouthwash before going to bed, my morning breath is much more palatable. It’s not smelling like roses or anything, but its not as stanki-fied.

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