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Originally Posted by ibeck
Well, time to break out the bowl. Today's a day I need it anyway  |
be sure to use 2% milk for a healthier breakfast
This isn't the worst thing I have ever smelled, but it is a smell that will forever be engrained into my mind: formaldehyde. Now I've been working with formaldehyde for almost 5 years now and let's just say I've gotten used to the burning sensation that you feel in your nostrils that lasts for hours even after you've cleaned up everything. But my first experience with formaldehyde was my junior year of high school when we dissected dead cats. Our cat had been killed and preserved in the 80's (so about 25 years it had just been sitting in this vacuum sealed air tight bag). When we opened that bag it was as if the Grim Reaper himself had come out of it, just pure rancid adulterated death.
The worst thing I have ever smelled I got to experience at a house fire during my first year as a volunteer fire fighter: singed human flesh. There isn't anything on this earth that is worse than that smell. If you've ever singed your hair (on purpose or by accident) or gotten a whiff of singed hair; take that and multiply it by about 10,000. Then couple it with the mental image you've created in your mind about how I cam about seeing singed flesh and that's what I smelled. And on top of that, damn smell for being the sense strongest associated with memory.