Question:
People who can’t see are blind.
People who can’t hear are deaf.
People who can’t sing are Catholic.
What about people who can’t smell?
flup?
They must be olfactory-impaired.
They’re probably smelly 
Anyhoo from here :
Main Entry: an.os.mia
Pronunciation: a-'näz-mE-&
Function: noun
: loss or impairment of the sense of smell
- an.os.mic /-mik/ adjective
So they’re anosmic.
Person 1: My dog has no nose.
Person 2: How does he smell?
Person 1: Awful.
It makes them terrible cooks.
My aunt lost her sense of smell after a high fever as a child. It is a well know family joke to never to be the first to taste something she prepared at a family gathering. Oh and don’t bother buying her perfume either.
I’ve always had a terrible sense of smell. I don’t know why.
Needless to say, I do NOT apply perfume until I can smell it. If I did, people would be keeling over everywhere.
I once knew a professor who had had some kind of sinus infection that had rendered him permanently unable to smell. Interestingly enough, it completely changed what food he ate, because he couldn’t TASTE his food, either. (Try eating with your nose pinched shut). “Dining” became nonexistent as it was no longer an activity he enjoyed. Whenever his stomach was hungry, he’d just shovel whatever food was around, and that was it. What a horrible fate!
Just FTR, I had a friend who had taken a bullet through the brain. He had no sense of smell but his sense of taste was intact; cooking was one of his hobbies.
I am pretty close to having no sense of smell whatsoever. I have a cold right now, so it’s pretty much entirely obliterated. I can smell some very very strong things, but that’s it. Kind of cool, actually. I am not scared by any stench. However, I never really understood people that thought I couldn’t taste. They seem to think the sense of smell constitutes 100% of the sense of taste. Hello, people, what do you think all those little bumpy things on your tongue are for. I can’t smell my food worth a shit, but I sure can taste it. Sure, maybe I don’t taste as fully as those with all their senses intact, but I can taste!
Um, why can’t CAtholics sinbg?
I’m not offended, I just never heard that one before…
(Although my sis is Catholic and boy-can she SING…just don’t tell her I said so…)
She’s conceited enough already!
Anyone else ever read Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses? Great book. She devotes part of her chapter on “Smell” to anosmia.
Seriously. I’ve been looking for this word for years.
My mom is allergic to everything and my dad is allergic to everything else. this translates to me as a basic allergy to… nitrogen I guess. This means a constnatly stuffed up nose. So I smells bad. I guess.
So I guess I shall be foervermore known as “flup the Anosmic”
Cool.
This post is just a filler cuz its #99…
Catholics apparently can’t sing. I go to a Catholic church and they never do. I’ve never heard them. Our choir director is a tone-deaf episcopaelliaypellaniean, and her hymns are always impossible to sing anyway. Must be her fault.
…Lousy episcopaelliaypellanieans…
flup like a racehorse
…isn’t the age of the joke.
It’s that I laughed at it.