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Ah, the smell of dead bodies! Isn't that gross? Heck yeah!
But the Museum of Natural History here in Houston has a Corpse Flower. A Corpse Flower is a big flower that, when it blooms, releases a smell similar to that of rotting corpses.
This smell attracts flies and insects, who pollinate the Corpse Flower.
The Corpse Flower is starting to bloom today. People are jamming into the museum so they can smell it. People are weird.
But one couple is unfortunate. A year ago, they booked the museum for a wedding, which will be held this Saturday.
When the Corpse Flower is in full bloom.
[img:$uid]http://epicureantravelradio.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Corpse_Flower_in_Bloom.15090422.jpg[/img:$uid] [Edited 7/23/10 10:39am] | |
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Ex-Moderator | A haunted house I went to last Halloween dabbled in smells for the first time. They had a room that "smelled like death" and it really did. Rotting flesh and flies buzzing and everything.
BLEH.
It was the coolest (and scariest) haunted house ever. It's run by an artists' collective and held in the dank basement of a gallery. You go in in groups of 4 and at one point they purposely separate you from your friends - so you're all alone, in the dark, no idea where you are or where you're going. At another point I was blindfolded, strapped to a wheelchair and pushed who knows where by a maniacal scary clown doctor thing.
But yeah - the smell of death. They had it. |
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That is just GROSS! There used to be deer that would get hit by cars and make off into the bushes where they couldnt be seen to die.. I had to walk past that area to get to the park I ran in... That is one smell that slaps you in the face and stays in your nostrils for HOURS!! ~~~~~ Oh that voice...incredible....there should be a musical instrument called George Michael... ~~~~~ | |
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"Bring friends, bring your children and bring foot spray 'cause it's gon' be funky." ~ Prince
A kiss on the lips, is betta than a knife in the back ~ Sheila E Darkness isn't the absence of light, it's the absence of U ~ Prince | |
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I do nothing professionally. I only do things for fun. johnart: Acrylic's old bras is where tits of all sizes go to frolic after they die. Tit Heaven. | |
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I've never heard of the titan arum, but I've heard of the rafflesia, which also is known as the corpse flower. THEY SMELL HORRIBLE!! Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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How romantic! | |
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Finally, a perfect thread in this forum.
Perfect concept, perfect execution, perfect stories, perfect responses, and damned near perfect title.
Brilliant. | |
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They've had a couple of corpse flowers at the University of Wisconsin in the last few years. They always get huuuuuuuuge lines to see/smell them.
I've never gone. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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that thing looks MASSIVE!!!! | |
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Why thank you!
Seriously. I've heard of these flowers but never seen one. When go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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On the topic of interesting smelly flowers may I also mention a few more faves of mine
New Jersey has lovely fungus that smells like rotten flesh...
1st up the Dog Stinkhorn...
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next the lovely Eastern Stinkhorn (or as I like to call it Phimosis fungus)
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and lastly... a different variety of vulva flower that smells rotten... the Brasilian Aristolochia Gigantea (Big stankass )
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Why do all the smelly plants look like GENITALS... ~~~~~ Oh that voice...incredible....there should be a musical instrument called George Michael... ~~~~~ | |
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Because flowers are sex organs... this is why flowers are considered "romantic" gifts. | |
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OOOOHHHHHHHH!!
If my husband brings me home a rot gut smelly penis or vagina looking flower there will be no romance..
Or will there.. ~~~~~ Oh that voice...incredible....there should be a musical instrument called George Michael... ~~~~~ | |
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I wouldn't know how to react if I got those flowers. PU! | |
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I KNOW! ~~~~~ Oh that voice...incredible....there should be a musical instrument called George Michael... ~~~~~ | |
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And it died in less than 20 posts, so I have to agree with you.
This thread was perfect. | |
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I tried. | |
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Thanks, but now this is reply #19 so we have to lock this thing down NOW.
Because if it gets to 20 posts, it can no longer be considered the perfect thread.
I'm self-locking this thread now.
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I've heard of this flower before, but have never smelled it. [Edited 8/4/10 8:10am] RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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Cool ! Sounds fun | |
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and at the plant | |
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Looks like a horse cock. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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I think that the first "corpse flower" to bloom in the USA was at the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx in the 1930's (or something like that). I think that as a result, the corpse flower was the official flower of the Bronx until 2000.
I feel bad for that wedding party...but just think how "cool" it would be to give out gas masks to all of the guests! That's a story to be handed down to your great-great-grandkids!
By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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It is slightly bigger than a whale's penis. | |
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Nice looking for the silver lining PurpleJedi!
I feel bad for that wedding party to and yet it's kinda funny, mainly because it's not my wedding.
<-- The nice smelling kind. I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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Along with the Cum Tree, this will not be going in my garden anytime soon My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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i want to smell it out of morbid curiosity. | |
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so do you say "til death do you part" when it smells..deathly already? | |
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