smell of orange peels
Posby
perhaps someone here can help me. i arrived home tonight to find my
apartment smelling very strongly of orange peels - as if someone had
squeezed the peels and released the scent all over the place.
the smell wasn't coming from the garbage or the heating vents (shared heat
for all 4 apartments). it isn't in the basement at all...
there are no stray oranges hiding anywhere (in fact, there are none in the
house at all).
we are both quite bewildered at this, and are pretty sure it is nothing
toxic (as I am not having a headache from the smell and the cats are fine
as ever).
anyone have any ideas?
please e-mail me, as I don't check this group as much as I used to...
-Posbina
"If you eat her lipstick you consume her jealous rage
they get you in the mouth, those girls"
Throwing Muses
NightSerf
Posby <po...@aracnet.com> wrote:
> perhaps someone here can help me. i arrived home tonight to find my
> apartment smelling very strongly of orange peels - as if someone had
> squeezed the peels and released the scent all over the place.
> the smell wasn't coming from the garbage or the heating vents (shared heat
> for all 4 apartments). it isn't in the basement at all...
> there are no stray oranges hiding anywhere (in fact, there are none in the
> house at all).
> we are both quite bewildered at this, and are pretty sure it is nothing
> toxic (as I am not having a headache from the smell and the cats are fine
> as ever).
> anyone have any ideas?
> please e-mail me, as I don't check this group as much as I used to...
In the _The_Shining_, King described a similar phenomenon in
connection with PSI ability. I somehow got the impression
(form a forward or afterward?--I don't remember) that he had
done a bit of research in addition to using his remarkable
imagination. Was this followed by any feelings or premonition?
Shared heat for multiple apartments? Oh, man, what a drag!
You gotta breathe your neighbors' tobacco or is it a
non-smoking building? Fire laws shouldn't allow it, either. A
small fire in one apartment could affixiate you all.
--
Serf tomb nor stone nor grave for me
(andy sims) just a bier up in a tree
ac...@virginia.edu to let the cold wind take me in
Wolfenhnd
Posbina writes:
>perhaps someone here can help me. i arrived home tonight to find my
>apartment smelling very strongly of orange peels - as if someone had
>squeezed the peels and released the scent all over the place.
On the "there might be a logical explaination" side:
There are some commercially available cleaning products on the market that
carry a strong, strong orange smell. Since you mention you live in an
apartment is it possible that someone in the vicinity (above, below, either
side, across the hall) used this stuff to clean their apartment? Or, how about
the hallway? Could the floor have been washed with it? Where is your air
vented in from? Could the source be from there? {Is your furnace room and
garbage disposal area near each other? If someone was deoderizing the garbage
area could it be picked up in the furnace vents?)
The very last time I saw the use of orange-scented deoderizer was in the local
pet shop because the smell is so strong it overpowers pet smells. It's STRONG.
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John Patrick Riley
Wolfenhnd wrote:
> The very last time I saw the use of orange-scented deoderizer was in the local
> pet shop because the smell is so strong it overpowers pet smells. It's STRONG.
>
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This is OT, but I chalenge ANYTHING to beat the smell of cat urine!
-John
Samios
John Patrick Riley wrote in message <34D107...@centuryinter.net>...
>This is OT, but I chalenge ANYTHING to beat the smell of cat urine!
>-John
You obviously have never had the pleasure of changing the diaper of a child
who has been withholding bm's for five days.
An experience more frightening than any ghost story!
Mary
mother to Elizabeth Dana (5-3-95) & Jennifer Nicole (9-21-97)
Betsy Hirschburg
You need to see a Neurologist if this persists.Some times people smell
Oranges before a seizure.
You are right about Cat Urine, especially if it sits in a Persian Rug,
under a basket Fun to try to get up off a wood floor!
Betsy Hirschburg
Windsong
Have you ever smelled a buck goat? Nothing kills that odor either.
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Carol the Frugal Ponder.. fishhead at hotcom.net
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Redneck PC terms #6. CHIP - Pasture muffins you try not to step in.
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John Patrick Riley
> >-John
>
> who has been withholding bm's for five days.
>
> An experience more frightening than any ghost story!
>
> Mary
> mother to Elizabeth Dana (5-3-95) & Jennifer Nicole (9-21-97)
the diaper bit. Mine never "withheld performance", but I imagine it's
pretty nasty after it's been curing in there for awhile! :) -John
John Patrick Riley
What amazes me about cat urine is how long it lasts. The scent NEVER
goes away. If they could unlock the secret and use it in colonge and
perfume, you'd buy one bottle for life. (I'm not having the problem with
my own cats. We have a vistor that keeps spraying the doors on the
porch)-John
Kimberos
>the diaper of a child
>who has been withholding bm's for five days.
Hey, I think I have all of you beat-how about a baby orangutan diaper
<<vomit>>. It is a toss-up between that and gorilla diarrhea. <<WRETCH>>
#(*O*)#
KOALA HEAD
Anonymous
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, John Patrick Riley wrote:
> Wolfenhnd wrote:
>
> > The very last time I saw the use of orange-scented deoderizer was in the local
> > pet shop because the smell is so strong it overpowers pet smells. It's STRONG.
> >
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>
> This is OT, but I chalenge ANYTHING to beat the smell of cat urine!
> -John
>
This thread is getting pretty gross.
I have smelled some physicist at work that smelled pretty bad. BO
Jamie
San Francisco Girl
Oh Jamie -- gnarly! I had to talk to one of my co-workers about his BO at
one point and time. Since I was his supervisor, I had no choice, but
believe me -- he was pretty stank.
SF Girl
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I'm not fat! I'm festively plump.
Cynthia H.
Betsy Hirschburg wrote:
>
> You need to see a Neurologist if this persists.Some times people smell
> Oranges before a seizure.
>
confusion? Things that should tase one way taste like something else?
Even if you don't have any of these other symptoms, you might want to
get checked out. Phantom smells of oranges is a hallmark sign of a
brain tumor--I forget which lobe, though.
Cynthia
Windsong
Did the child >>>> EXPLODE? <<<< peeeuuuuUUWWWW.
Redneck PC terms # 7. TERMINAL - Time to call the undertaker.
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> You obviously have never had the pleasure of changing the diaper of a
child
> who has been withholding bm's for five days.
>
Wolfenhnd
>> This is OT, but I chalenge ANYTHING to beat the smell of cat urine!
>> -John
I can't solve past problems but to save future ones you might consider feeding
your cat to my Wolfhound. :)))
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was...@the.ford
John Patrick Riley wrote:
>
> Betsy Hirschburg wrote:
> >
> > You need to see a Neurologist if this persists.Some times people smell
> > Oranges before a seizure.
> >
> > under a basket Fun to try to get up off a wood floor!
> > Betsy Hirschburg
>
> What amazes me about cat urine is how long it lasts. The scent NEVER
> goes away. If they could unlock the secret and use it in colonge and
> perfume, you'd buy one bottle for life. (I'm not having the problem with
> my own cats. We have a vistor that keeps spraying the doors on the
> porch)-John
I managed to get the smell of cat pee out of a book my cat obviously
took exception to :-(. It was one of the first books I borrowed from
the local library in our new home and as we hadn't put the bedside
tables in place I had put it on the floor next to the bed. The next
morning I woke up, grabbed the book, felt it was wet- and assumed I must
have upset my water glass over it- until I smelled it <bleah>.
Very embarrassed, I had to explain to the Librarian what had happened
(the only time in Sugie's 19-year life with me he ever did anything like
that) and paid for the book, which the Librarian told me to keep (wonder
why ;-)?) I packed the pages with talcum powder, discarding and
replacing it a couple of times, and now you'd never guess what happened.
The book my cat hated? "The Diary of an English Gentlewoman" by E M
Delafield, a gentle dig at 1930s English county life. Don't ask me why
Sugie disliked it, though.
Colleen J
OogaBooga
Hey,
Can't we start smelling something BESIDES oranges in this NG, huh?
OB
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Jennifer E. Inacio
Well, rumor has it...When you go to Gettysburg and visit the home of Mamie &
Ike Eisenhower you can still smell Mamie's perfume in the upstairs bedroom.
However all bottles that are sitting on the nightstand are permanently(sp?)
sealed.
Jen
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Wolfenhnd
Coffee. My SIL had a phantom coffee maker at her house.
If you prowl the archives you'll find we've discussed flower scents, skunk
smells and other assorted odors. We also give equal time to all citrus fruits
and fruits in general. ;)
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John Patrick Riley
My 2 kitties are innocent. It's a vistor that's marking the porch. -John
John Patrick Riley
was...@the.ford wrote:
> The book my cat hated? "The Diary of an English Gentlewoman" by E M
> Delafield, a gentle dig at 1930s English county life. Don't ask me why
> Sugie disliked it, though.
> Colleen J
One of our cats once sprayed a book. It was a cookbook. I wonder if he
was trying to tell us something? It's pretty disgusting to be thinking
of food and open a cookbook and be greeted by THAT smell. :) -John
Way of The Ray
<Snipping John & Bettie's stuff>
Colleen said:
> I managed to get the smell of cat pee out of a book my cat obviously
> took exception to :-(. It was one of the first books I borrowed from
> the local library in our new home and as we hadn't put the bedside
> tables in place I had put it on the floor next to the bed. The next
> morning I woke up, grabbed the book, felt it was wet- and assumed I must
> have upset my water glass over it- until I smelled it <bleah>.
> Very embarrassed, I had to explain to the Librarian what had happened
> (the only time in Sugie's 19-year life with me he ever did anything like
> that) and paid for the book, which the Librarian told me to keep (wonder
> why ;-)?) I packed the pages with talcum powder, discarding and
> replacing it a couple of times, and now you'd never guess what happened.
> The book my cat hated? "The Diary of an English Gentlewoman" by E M
> Delafield, a gentle dig at 1930s English county life. Don't ask me why
> Sugie disliked it, though.
> Colleen J
>
Maybe she was upset you named her "Sugie."
Ray
was...@the.ford
Way of The Ray wrote:
> Maybe she was upset you named her "Sugie."
> Ray
Suggie was a "he"- it was short for "Sugarpuss". I guess he had had
plenty of time to get used to the name, though- I named him when I was
10 (after a jigsaw puzzle picture of a stray cat) and he must have been
14 or 15 by the time he peed on his first and only book. He lived till
he was 19, so it's not like he lacked opportunity to pee on another one
:-).
Colleen J
PS When she was learning to talk, our daughter called him "Superpuss".
Not far off- even at 19 he was still the king of the neighbourhood-
cats, dogs and all. Though he was just an ordinary sized house cat,
Sugie would take on all comers and win. Having him neutered only
doubled the number of other cats he hated :-). He was very gentle with
our little girl, though.