This blog post will immortalize, to the extent that the Tubes of the Internet are Immortal, some of the comments left by visitors to Perry the Corpse Flower. Her/his sibling Bob, who flowered at the Marjorie McNeely (aka Como) Conservatory last spring produced similar impressions – those are stored in the memories of thousands of humans, but not on paper. The comments below reflect the olfactory experiences of the participants in the Perry event.
I have redacted both names of individual humans and comments that I deem to be too redolent of psychopathy, along with those that reek of simplistic sophomoric crudity – but otherwise, the comments are unedited.
Many more comments remain to be posted, which I will do in due course. For those that I’ve already posted, click here. For a current webcam view of Perry, click here. For some further photos of Perry’s Leaf (and associated human scale objects), click here, and for my main Perry photo cache on Flickr, click here. Click the link to the left for a webcam view of Perry.
I suggest consumption of a few madeleines while reading the remainder of this post.
THE COMMENTS:
seaweed
Rotting Fish + Seaweed
My looker room at school
rotting fish in a locker room
a big mac
POOP
week old cat box
garbage dumpster
I have smelled a body that had been dead for a week. This is very similar.
100 dead mice
Bucket of dead fish
Garbage in a hot trailer park
rotten dead fish
cat litter box
hot, sick, foul aquarium
like a dead animal covered in maggots
my laundry…
Like Limburger cheese, only fouler
A CORPES! [note: “E” was struck out]
An infusion of old hamburger and arpage perfume.
a dead animal in the ditch
like a dead body and dead bugs
NOT AS BAD AS A ROTTING ANIMAL!
A broken refridgerator’s contents
smells like my son’s feet!
1 week old diaper pail
rotten chicken
rotten food
lutefisk
it is awful
pig manury
garbage someone forgot to take out for a few days.
Bad garbage
lutefisk
Not so Bad At All!!!
A Corpse Flower
My freshman roommates laundry pile – GAC ‘82
Our dog after she rolls in a well-rotted critter!
rotting flesh
– moldy basement
ick.
Hamburger – Gone Bad
old milk carton that hasn’t been rinsed before going in trash
Rotting fish – could be worse (strong)
slightly like decomposing animal
– it smelled like our trash can
summer day washed up rotting fish
pile of waste @ the beach
Icky Refidgerator Stuff
a dead animal in summer heat
chicken in the garbage in the summer
a fart
dead body
Ditto! [arrow back to “chicken in the garbage” comment] – Double ditto! [same line]
stinky dirty laundry
me!
Compost pile @ the farm
Inside of a garbage can on a summer day
dead animal
dead mouse
dog flatulence
Dead fish rotting at low tide on the beach
dead fish
Dirty Diapers
Dead Fish
Dead Squirrel
Dead mouse in the basement
Dead fish
Dead Tree Toad under the seat of a car in summer
Smelled like dead fish
rotten meat
road kill!
dead mouse in your camper drawer
it smells like my socks when I play outside for a long time
it’s self
the couch I just threw away
our dog
New York City
Rotting fish
delicious
The Bio 102 Decomposition Lab
dead rotting fish
grandma!
dead fish
The Smell is Beyond Fish –
Dog vomit (trust me, I know…)
– seconded
Dog Poop!
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