On 10 Jan 2007 19:03:20 -0800, "Gregory Morrow"
wrote:
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>Iceman wrote:
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>> Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:
>> > Let is be knownst that on 10 Jan 2007 09:16:15 -0800, "Iceman"
>> > writted:
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>> > >Hatunen wrote:
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>> > >> I remember the first time I ever flew to LAX in the mid-1960s and
>> > >> as I got off the plane found that I could *taste* the air.
>> > >
>> > >Most Asian and some Latin American cities are much worse. Seoul smells
>> > >like you're in a apartment building's boiler room, Bangkok has a sweet
>> > >smell from all the leaded gasoline, and Shenzen smells like car exhaust
>> > >multiplied by 1000. LA's air is like a country garden compared to
>> > >those. The worst I've ever smelled was Guadalajara, Mexico which has a
>> > >pervasive sewage smell throughout the entire (otherwise interesting and
>> > >historic) city. I passed a bakery in Guadalajara, and just stood
>> > >outside it for like two minutes just so I could smell something else!
>> >
>> > At the risk of name dropping, Calcutta is the worst smelling place
>> > I've ever been too. Fortunately the pollution was so bad my sinuses
>> > closed up after not too long. They told me it had improved hugely from
>> > 20 years earlier. Of all the 3rd world places I've seen, that was the
>> > worst.
>>
>> Worse than Port Moresby or Bucharest?
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>
>What's Port Moresby smell like - rotting papaya and raw sewage...???
Cayenne!
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Martin
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