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...Smell the paper mill stank this morning. Hate that smell.
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We have a sugar plant here that is always cookin' up sugar beets. You would think that it would smell good. Oh no..it stanks too. Tacoma Wa. has a lotta paper mills and they always have the Tacoma Aroma. Paper mills are one of the worst smells alright.
We have a sugar plant here that is always cookin' up sugar beets. You would think that it would smell good. Oh no..it stanks too. Tacoma Wa. has a lotta paper mills and they always have the Tacoma Aroma. Paper mills are one of the worst smells alright.
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Have you ever noticed how when you are riding down the road, and somebody says "Eeeeew, I smell a skunk" what does everybody do ??? Breathe in deeply like they're walking thru a chocolate factory.......
Not me, somebody say SKUNK, I clamp my mouth and nose shut and dont breathe again until I pass out from lack of oxygen!
Have you ever noticed how when you are riding down the road, and somebody says "Eeeeew, I smell a skunk" what does everybody do ??? Breathe in deeply like they're walking thru a chocolate factory.......
Not me, somebody say SKUNK, I clamp my mouth and nose shut and dont breathe again until I pass out from lack of oxygen!
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Paper Mill, Now i get it,, So that's where paper comes from.
I thought you just get paper from Staples.
Paper Mill, Now i get it,, So that's where paper comes from.
I thought you just get paper from Staples.
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Good idea about clampin' up Z. If you stop and think about, when you ride past a feed lot, the smell is bad enough to gag a maggot. What creates that smell? Molecules. Yep,, Molecules of cow $hit. Floating in the air. When you breath that in, you might as well be kissing a cow's a$$. !! Skunks, bloated badgers, rotted deer, flat stinky possums..when ridin' we inhale all those molecules. Now go eat breakfast and think about that. Ha Ha!!!
Good idea about clampin' up Z. If you stop and think about, when you ride past a feed lot, the smell is bad enough to gag a maggot. What creates that smell? Molecules. Yep,, Molecules of cow $hit. Floating in the air. When you breath that in, you might as well be kissing a cow's a$$. !! Skunks, bloated badgers, rotted deer, flat stinky possums..when ridin' we inhale all those molecules. Now go eat breakfast and think about that. Ha Ha!!!
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Even when you kiss your significant other, all you are doing is touching your lips to the sweet end of a 22 foot long digestive system. Ha Ha~!!!!
Even when you kiss your significant other, all you are doing is touching your lips to the sweet end of a 22 foot long digestive system. Ha Ha~!!!!
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Its a giant Great Northern/Southern Co mill located on the Chattahoochee River and about 15 miles from where we live but if the wind and humidity is just right you smell it.
Its a giant Great Northern/Southern Co mill located on the Chattahoochee River and about 15 miles from where we live but if the wind and humidity is just right you smell it.
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Zook,
We use to stay in a friends mobile home in Mexico, Maine when we ski and the paper mill was going strong and it smell to high heaven. WOW..As one person said, "stinky soxs, rotten cabbage"! And I think they were right.
Now the paper mills are closed in Maine and the areas are a waste land. No work, no jobs, and no businesses. We went to Berlin where there was a paper mill and it is a ghost town now.
Sometimes when you are riding you come up to the skunk before you know it and WHAM, tooooo laaattteee, WOW! We went through a family of skunks who were hit and boy talk about smell, I think my windshield melted that day!
Have a great day!
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Rosy
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Zook,
We use to stay in a friends mobile home in Mexico, Maine when we ski and the paper mill was going strong and it smell to high heaven. WOW..As one person said, "stinky soxs, rotten cabbage"! And I think they were right.
Now the paper mills are closed in Maine and the areas are a waste land. No work, no jobs, and no businesses. We went to Berlin where there was a paper mill and it is a ghost town now.
Sometimes when you are riding you come up to the skunk before you know it and WHAM, tooooo laaattteee, WOW! We went through a family of skunks who were hit and boy talk about smell, I think my windshield melted that day!
Have a great day!
Regards,
Rosy
From NH
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Can't say I have had the pleasure of enjoying the aroma of a papermill, but I'm pretty sure I can one up it with the stink from a pig rendering/slaughterhouse any day. I thought cattle and chicken ones were bad riding through Kansas, but they don't come close to the pork one we get to enjoy in Guymon, OK each year on a one-day 5-state poker run.
Can't say I have had the pleasure of enjoying the aroma of a papermill, but I'm pretty sure I can one up it with the stink from a pig rendering/slaughterhouse any day. I thought cattle and chicken ones were bad riding through Kansas, but they don't come close to the pork one we get to enjoy in Guymon, OK each year on a one-day 5-state poker run.
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Very elequently put Trentmeister-I always was curious about the exact technical process that happens in a cow's ass. Now I understand on the molecular level!!!
Very elequently put Trentmeister-I always was curious about the exact technical process that happens in a cow's ass. Now I understand on the molecular level!!!
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Yep...scatological science.
Yep...scatological science.
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I hit a skunk once with my RSTD. The bike came out ok but I had to throw the boots and jeans away
I hit a skunk once with my RSTD. The bike came out ok but I had to throw the boots and jeans away
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know what you mean Randy. I grew up near a paper mill and when you are down wind it's bad.
know what you mean Randy. I grew up near a paper mill and when you are down wind it's bad.
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Geez, glad I don't live near a paper mill :AGGHH: :AGGHH:
Geez, glad I don't live near a paper mill :AGGHH: :AGGHH:
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Somebody once told me that it was the "smell of money". Not for 98% of the population around it, it ain't... it's just a putrid stench.
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I worked at a beet sugar plant about 35 years ago. Still can't get the smell out of my mind. I was riding with my wife, sound asleep, passed the Meridian mill. Woke up, turned to my wife and without looking said "sugar beets".
I worked at a beet sugar plant about 35 years ago. Still can't get the smell out of my mind. I was riding with my wife, sound asleep, passed the Meridian mill. Woke up, turned to my wife and without looking said "sugar beets".
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The sugar plant smell is kind of a weird one alright. Hard to catergorize..not a severely offensive smell, yet it soaks into everything and is always there. If I am somewhere in the valley where it happens to be really strong, I can smell it on my clothes at night in the house. Kinda like when you eat at a Subway sandwich shop. Your clothes smell like the bread cookin' there the rest of the day. Even the ice in the pop machine tastes like how the bread smells.
The sugar plant smell is kind of a weird one alright. Hard to catergorize..not a severely offensive smell, yet it soaks into everything and is always there. If I am somewhere in the valley where it happens to be really strong, I can smell it on my clothes at night in the house. Kinda like when you eat at a Subway sandwich shop. Your clothes smell like the bread cookin' there the rest of the day. Even the ice in the pop machine tastes like how the bread smells.
The local sugar beet factory puts out a smell of yummy peanut oil Trent....but thanks for visual about kissing a cow's a$$...that I could do without....cows aren't my type! :AGGHH:
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Peanut oil huh?...Well, I guess you might be right. A really strong peanut oil..that smells like yummy crap!!!!!!!!!! Ha Ha! Good to know cows are not your type. They stink.
Sometimes I have to be in paper mills for a couple of hours. Holding my breath is not an option. Best to just ignore it. That's what I do. And as far as Maine, there is at least one paper mill. Its in Bangor area. Was there last winter.
I love pigs! Grew up milkin' cows and we always had pigs around too. One of my favorite farm critters. And you are correct about the $$...need a few bucks?, throw a coupla weeners in the back of the pickup and run into town to the auction...no prob!
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I grew up in a South Jersey farming area, (if you can believe New Jersey ever had any open farming land), and one of my favorites of all time was when they use to spread chicken or swine poop in the fields. Sometimes it was a liquid cocktail of both sprayed onto the soil. The air just permeated with the essence of O’-de-Phew. You woke up to it, tasted it in your Sugar Frosted Flakes in the morning, swore it was stuck to your clothes mom had dried on the clothes line and probably brought it into school so your friends could enjoy it also. Mom used to call it “That good old country air”. I think mom’s sniffer may have been damaged cause I always thought it smelled like hell. Now days I can pick up the scent and identify smells of many stinky things. When my wife and I are out riding the back roads and we come across a rather unpleasant smelling area I’ll yell back to her on the intercom “Aaahhh Deb, smell that good old country air”. She almost always answers back with some kind of muffled tune, most often a gag or two, and I almost never laugh!!!
Great smell, one pays my retirement after working in paper mills around Wisconsin for many years.... After a while it goes away. :wave4:ThumbUp
There three paper mills in my area so no matter which way you go you have to pass one. It's a signature of the U.P.
those fumes are tough on the nose-imo,the smell of a chicken house that was just emptied-especially in july-august is the worst.skunk odor does not seem to spread far BUT chicken litter!!! hold your breath and crank open the throttle on that trike. better days may be coming??
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We had an uncle that was born in Fort Kent Main. Oh yea! Smell that Smell. We had a Uniroyal Rubber plant 30 miles south of here. They can stink it up pretty good too.
Worked in a Derby Refinery in Witchita, up the block was a dead animal processing plant. Man did it smell, Was tough trying to eat lunch.
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