# Too gross for Dirty Jobs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-gross-for-dirty-jobs/415259>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 11, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-gross-for-dirty-jobs/415259 "2007-08-11T15:11:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-gross-for-dirty-jobs/415259/21 "2007-08-13T21:36:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Millit the Frail]  
Have they ever shown someone giving rectal exams? Because I haven’t done one yet\*, but I hear it gets pretty foul sometimes. 🙂

\*Nursing student.  
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There was one where he had to do a rectal exam on a cow – something to do with finding out how far along she was in a pregnancy – would that count? I don’t think I would want to stick my arm in there…

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**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-gross-for-dirty-jobs/415259/22 "2007-08-13T22:06:23Z")

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Dirty Jobs is rocketing as my family’s favorite show.

It may have become #1 after the Tannery-in-up-state-NY episode. 🙂

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-gross-for-dirty-jobs/415259/23 "2007-08-13T22:35:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Quercus]  
[Hearsay Alert] I met some guys who were overseeing the crews cleaning out abandoned refrigerators in New Orleans after Katrina. They told me that the group had invited Dirty Jobs down, and they came down and did some filming, but it never aired.

Too bad, because I think for smell, that job would be very hard to beat.  
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Hmm. I remember seeing part of a Katrina episode where Mike was helping with house gutting. They showed lots of washers still full of water, and kitchens full of rotting food and rats…but I don’t remember them spending much time with refrigerators.

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