Come Here. Smell My Nose.
1. I took my work wife out for drinks after work on Tuesday. I had a beer.
She drank bourbon.
It’s not easy being work-married to me.
2. It occurred to me today that when I see the color orange, it may be seen by someone else as purple, etc. and that we’re all seeing different colors for everything. And maybe the same is true for the things we smell. Or eat. Maybe turkey in my mouth tastes completely different than turkey in someone else’s mouth. I wonder what it would be like to eat with someone else’s mouth for a day. Just to see what they think things taste like.
And then I wondered (again) if everything I smell is polluted somehow with the smell of the inside of my nose. It’s sort of like a filter or sunglasses – it has to color everything, right? What if the inside of my nose has a smell and so everything smells like just some variation of it?
3. It has come to my attention that Lady Date Penelope has been fooling around on the side. I am a little upset. But not like, you know, Mel Gibson upset or anything. I mean, I’m not a Nazi, for Christ’s sake.
4. Regarding the previous entry – I concluded that I think there is a grain of truth to the saying. Here is how I reached that conclusion.
I swapping the genders so that it read:
A) “a man wants to have sex with a woman because he’s fallen in love with her. A woman falls in love with a man because she wants to have sex with him”
and then I compared it to the original:
B) “a woman wants to have sex with a man because she’s fallen in love with him. A man falls in love with a woman because he wants to have sex with her”
and I did not think to myself, “They are both completely wrong.” Instead, A) seemed somehow *more* inaccurate than B).
So I concluded that I think there is a smidge of truth to the saying.
5. I’d like to ask someone to smell the inside of my nose but it isn’t like I could take their word on what it smells like anyway.
Where’s Descartes when I need him?
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
July 14th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Dude! You have WAY too much free time on your hands if this is what you think about!
And how do I get an avatar for when I comment?
July 14th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
You know, some of us can’t smell at all.
July 14th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
The inside of your nose probably smells like boogers. That would be my guess.
July 14th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them. And thus I realized that once in my life I had to raze everything to the ground & begin again from the original foundations, if I wanted to establish anything firm & lasting in the sciences. But the task seemed enormous, & I was waiting until I reached a point in my life that was so timely that no more suitable time for undertaking these plans of action would come to pass… At last I will apply myself earnestly & unreservedly to this general demolition of my opinions.
D E S C A R T E S
p.s. he’s talking about bacon.
July 14th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Ok, you drank a beer but what did you smoke when thinking on #2 ?
Don’t fret, I’m sure it smelt like bacon so it’s not your fault you tried it.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:48 am
You can borrow my mouth for the evening if that helps you at all.
heh
July 15th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Where do you come up with this stuff?
July 15th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
@barb – I have a wordpress blog so I think if you register on wordpress and have an icon/avatar there, it shows up here.
@Editor – Oh, you smell all right.
@J – I probably think boogers have no smell because that’s probably my baseline. Baseline booger smell.
@Chic – YAY! I love that you commented with that. Bacon, duh. Totally.
@Debra – You know what’s sad? I think these things all the time.
@Momma Sunshine – *Blink*
@BobbiJanay – I dunno. Just from thinking about stuff?
-R,
July 15th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I don’t think it’s sad.
I think it’s creative, fun and interesting!
July 15th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
I have a very sensitive nose, things seem to smell very strongly to me, that don’t hardly smell at all to those around me.
This is fun when the stomach flu is going around, or when the dogs eat the 1/2 gallon of fudge ripple the kids left melting on the porch and, as you can guess, they redeposit said ice cream in unpleasant little piles…
I would let you borrow my mouth but my delish new boyfriend keeps it awfully busy these days
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
1. I always drink bourbon on the rocks, and I never drink beer if I can help it. Girls are cooler than boys.
2. Because the cones in everyone’s eyes are shaped differently, we -do- see colors in wide variations, and nobody sees orange (for example) in the same way. However, we see it in a similar enough way that we can all agree on what the color looks like on a basic level. Which is why everyone can identify an orange (the fruit) for what it is, and half of us don’t walk around calling it a pear. Weirdly, there’s been a lot of research on this. That kind of freaks me out, since it’s essentially what I spent my time as a stoned teenager talking about with my friends.
The inside of a nose doesn’t have a smell. Unless it’s a) bleeding, b) infected or c) dirty. Skin, which is what the inside of your nose is made of is completely neutral so that our phermones come across the right way to the opposite sex.
Ok, I’m done being a know-it-all now. Being without internet for a few days has really screwed me up!