# What's the stinkiest odor you'e ever encountered? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189 "2006-04-18T17:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/121 "2006-04-22T04:41:06Z")
Next time someone needs to make themselves or someone else vomit, we now know which thread to direct them to. Please, no more filthy vagina posts, people’s future sex lives are at stake! We can throw out rotten meat, fish, roadkill and garbage, but I refuse to throw away a good vagina (and what’s attached to it naturally). There’s gotta be a line. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/122 "2006-04-22T04:49:03Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > … but I refuse to throw away a good vagina… Ebay then? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/123 "2006-04-22T05:15:32Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Ebay then? > > 😃 Not on your life. [sub] If I had one that is…[/sub] ---
**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:** [April 22, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/124 "2006-04-22T05:17:10Z")
> [@MixieArmadillo](#): > > Tampon removal, after said tampon has been forgotten in a vagina for approximately two weeks. A classmate of mine from high school left hers in for _a month_. I never heard any details about the odor; now I have a good idea though. While my submission doesn’t even begin to match the things posted here, the worst thing I have smelled is my neighbor’s apartment. I don’t know what causes the smell. It’s a very heavy, sweet/decaying odor with an undercurrent of feces. It gets stuck in your sinuses, and easily triggers the gag reflex. The stench also clings to my neighbor (or maybe her clothes). This neighbor’s hot water heater sprung a leak earlier this week, resulting in some water flooding into my apartment. That, combined with the industrial fans she used to dry her carpet, resulted in some of the stink coming over to my apartment. Mom went to the grocery store and purchased at least one of every deodorizing product on the shelf; currently, my apartment smells like mountain fresh lilac strawberry with the occasional blueberry Renuzit candle. Well, at least I’m not heaving. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/125 "2006-04-22T05:19:35Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Not on your life. > > [sub] If I had one that is…[/sub] A life or a vagina? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/126 "2006-04-22T05:34:01Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > A life or a vagina? > > 😃 Hey now. Right now I have a bit of one, but not the other. If I had the other, I’d have alot more of the one. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/127 "2006-04-22T05:36:37Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Hey now. > > Right now I have a bit of one, but not the other. If I had the other, I’d have alot more of the one. Funnily enough, that still doesn’t enlighten us. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/128 "2006-04-22T05:53:18Z")
I have no pussy, but I have a dick. However I am neither. If **kambuckta** needs me to sell plastic vaginas online, I just need a supplier I guess. [sub]Of course I get to keep the imperfect ones[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_O_Malley_s_Cow)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/129 "2006-04-22T06:00:43Z")
The meat processing plant in Emporia Kansas. Oh, good God! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/130 "2006-04-22T06:06:05Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > I have no pussy, but I have a dick. However I am neither. Geez, you’re a bloody good practitioner of the Confounding Conundrum aren’t ya’? You might ‘have’ no pussy, but still be in possession of one, and ditto (but in reverse) with the dick. 😛 > [@](#): > > If **kambuckta** needs me to sell plastic vaginas online, I just need a supplier I guess. > > [sub]Of course I get to keep the imperfect ones[/sub] Would you really want to keep the ‘imperfect’ ones that have been so elegantly and eloquently advertised in this thread? Really? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/131 "2006-04-22T06:33:42Z")
Okay, I’m a guy. I have a dick. I am not in possesion of a pussy or any facsimile thereof. This has gone quite a bit further than I thought it would. What the fuck does this have to do with disgusting odors? Please **kambuckta** , stop it. This is geting quite vulgar. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/132 "2006-04-22T06:54:05Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Please **kambuckta** , stop it. This is geting quite vulgar. THIS is vulgar? Geez, I thought we had upped the decorum tone of the thread 100 fold with our exchange!! Sorry, just having a bit of Saturday afternoon fun with your wonderfully ambiguous posts. I didn’t mean to upset you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/133 "2006-04-22T07:06:07Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > THIS is vulgar? Geez, I thought we had upped the decorum tone of the thread 100 fold with our exchange!! > > Sorry, just having a bit of Saturday afternoon fun with your wonderfully ambiguous posts. I didn’t mean to upset you. 😉 Forgot my 😉 Sorry. Damn smileys… ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/134 "2006-04-22T07:09:16Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Forgot my 😉 > > Sorry. > > Damn smileys… Cool. We’re still up for a date at **Potters Fields** next week then? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/135 "2006-04-22T12:41:27Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Paging **mrald** - > > **Sting** would like his cheese back. > 😃 :smack: I am on a roll with the bad spelling… For the record, Sting’s music is a pretty awful stench ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/136 "2006-04-22T22:54:01Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > No contest. Clearly, **gabriela** wins. > > Still, meekly now, I wanted to add that a close second might be the time, while I was working in a pathology department, when I opened a white, opaque plastic cannister (like what ice cream used to come in) that was supposed to contain formalin and an excised body organ. Well, since the formalin had long since spilled out, I had no idea what the organ was. No matter - breast, kidney, brain, liver, whatever - the smell from the viscid “mushroom soup” I encountered was, and remains, beyond description and beyond comparison. Not to gag was impossible. The odor touched centers in me that I didn’t even know existed. Simply beyond words. Yeah, but… what do you suppose it _tasted_ like? :eek: 😃 But really, :eek: . I feel for ya. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/137 "2006-04-23T05:00:51Z")
> [@Jeep's Phoenix](#): > > A classmate of mine from high school left hers in for _a month_. I never heard any details about the odor; now I have a good idea though. I don’t understand how someone can forget they have a tampon inside them. > [@Jeep's Phoenix](#): > > While my submission doesn’t even begin to match the things posted here, the worst thing I have smelled is my neighbor’s apartment. I don’t know what causes the smell. It’s a very heavy, sweet/decaying odor with an undercurrent of feces. It gets stuck in your sinuses, and easily triggers the gag reflex. … Did your neighbor used to have a spouse or relative living with them that you haven’t seen around for a while, or maybe gets a lot of visitors that you never see leave? ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/138 "2006-04-23T05:49:35Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Cool. We’re still up for a date at **Potters Fields** next week then? > > 😃 I am if you are. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/139 "2006-04-23T07:32:00Z")
We had this huge double cabinet in our kitchen. No shelves, just this cavernous abiss under our range. My dad would buy _any canned food on sale,_ and he had quite a collection. Once they overflowed from the pantry, they went into the huge cabinet. Since the cabinet was so dark, mom thought it would be an ideal place to store potatoes. At some point one lone tater rolled away from it’s buddies and was immediatley cover by the cans. Those were some well made cabinets, because we never smelled it until I was sent to fetch some potatoes for supper. OhmygodIjustaboutdied! My dad had to remove all the cans and get his flashlight. When he found the culprit, it was half eaten by maggots. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189/140 "2006-04-23T08:07:29Z")
I forgot to mention the bloated decomposing kitten that was wedged behind my mom’s dresser. It was just as bad but not as strong as the potato. Confession: The smell of decaying cold blooded animals (except fish) makes my stomach growl. It’s kind of a spicey smell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stinkiest-odor-youe-ever-encountered/353189.md?page=8)