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Smelly tourists outlawed!
StoveStomper
8:29:09 AM
7/08/02

Well that sort of worked.
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StoveStomper
8:30:31 AM
7/08/02

I've met thru-hikers who smell better than some of the French tourists encountered at Disney.
treebait
8:36:44 AM
7/08/02

Being a smelly hiker has advantages. They gave me a clean berth at Hot Dog Johnny's yesterday.
Geobeet
8:40:50 AM
7/08/02

Yeah, and you usually don't have to worry about tourists crowding around you.
treebait
8:44:30 AM
7/08/02

From the article, 'Anyone found to be too smelly will be ordered to cover up or get a fine.'

I don't think clothes will cover up a smell! Maybe they can spray the offenders or install a shower by the beach.

I can see it now. It will be just like spraying cattle. To leave the beach, everyone will have to walk between fences, where they will receive a liberal spraying with a French perfume.(Replacing one smell with another.)

I wonder what the water is like at that beach.
nowslimmer
8:52:50 AM
7/08/02

Where is that out of work Frenchman that was on the board a few days ago? Input needed.
StoveStomper
9:24:14 AM
7/08/02

Maybe he can get a job spraying perfume on tourists.
bitpusher
9:26:19 AM
7/08/02

LMAO! that's too funny. after my evening run, i always have to walk on the sidewalk through some open-air restaurants, because they're on the way home. (there's a running and biking trail like 3 blocks away, isn't that awesome!) i guess i know what those people are thinking now, heheeee!
lyra
9:29:43 AM
7/08/02

I'll remember this if I ever go to France.
Phil
9:38:40 AM
7/08/02

I don't suppose women spray you with perfume as you walk past, do they, lyra?
bitpusher
9:42:12 AM
7/08/02

eewww! i'd bite them if they did.

my sweat smells like roses, anyhoo.

;-P
lyra
9:50:11 AM
7/08/02

Lucky you. Mine smells like cat whiz.
treebait
10:00:44 AM
7/08/02

lol....
bitpusher
10:22:10 AM
7/08/02

hey, don't laugh at treebait's poor sweat, bitpusher...we all can't be rosy like me, now can we.
;-)

and speaking of which, the air vent near the floor and under the bathroom cabinet in the new place smell like cat spray!! grody to the max.
lyra
10:26:38 AM
7/08/02

Not my fault! Try washing the cabinet with baking soda, maybe what you can reach inside the airvent too. That helps.
treebait
10:34:32 AM
7/08/02

i don't think he was really laughing at you, tehe. baking soda, huh? okay, we'll try that!
lyra
10:38:07 AM
7/08/02

Backpackers are known to have a powerful odor. Then there's Lyra!
Dunadan
10:40:13 AM
7/08/02

New idea for TT tee: I smell

We ate at a restaurant in an AT town that had a sign at the entrance to the dining room asking backpackers to eat in the bar in deference to their civilized customers.
Violin
10:47:55 AM
7/08/02

Do I sense a new civil rights movement?
Dunadan
10:49:23 AM
7/08/02

Do a search for "Kreimer v. Morristown". It's the case of a homeless man who sued the Morristown Library for throwing him out because he smelled so bad he was disturbing other patrons. I think he won something like $80,000.
Violin
10:54:00 AM
7/08/02

Holy roll on, Batman! I smell money!
Dunadan
10:55:47 AM
7/08/02

Wonder how fast he blew that money.
treebait
10:56:12 AM
7/08/02

The French are complaining about people smelling bad? That's the pot calling the kettle black for sure.
Pathman
11:20:54 AM
7/08/02

80 G's buys a LOT of soap....
Tilt
11:27:36 AM
7/08/02

He later ran for mayor and listed a park bench as his residence (I'm not joking).
Violin
11:43:13 AM
7/08/02

You'd think he would have been able to list a more permanent residence, what with $80,000 rattling around in his pockets.
skullcap
11:52:48 AM
7/08/02

That was the problem. He actually left town and was living in a motel nearby.
Violin
11:55:20 AM
7/08/02

kleent's squirrel cousin "Stinky"
Check out Stinky the squirrel.
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StoveStomper
12:11:52 PM
7/08/02

Ooo Ooo That Smell... Can't You Smell That Smell
Patchouli has worked for many a eras...and decades in the States.
Buddur
2:09:09 PM
7/08/02

Okay, stinky. I think I know what happened to his tail. The squirrels round here regularly connect wires on the power lines with their tails. So I have 2 squirrels-bob and curly- who look like stinky, but not nearly as fat.
treebait
3:49:08 PM
7/08/02

We had a bob-tail squirrel in our old neighborhood. I always assumed it was from an unfortunate contact with a power line.
bitpusher
3:54:04 PM
7/08/02

When they did the survey the article refers to (that found the French use less soap than any other Europeans), one of the Brit tabloids had this headline: "Zee French Air Feelthy!"
tehipite
4:32:35 PM
7/08/02

I like to smell it makes me feel good and I like to smell other people!

8)
Crazy Mike Backpacks
6:50:59 PM
7/08/02

I had to go strait to the dentist on my way from the mountains.Fastest two fillings on record.
uncliff
7:06:06 PM
7/08/02

Pathman
7:25:48 PM
7/08/02

Sniff whats that I smell????

Ummmmmmmmmmmm Goooooood!!!!!

8)
Crazy Mike Backpacks
7:28:47 PM
7/08/02

So basically all of france is now forced to walk around in shirsts that say " I smell". I say its about friggin time. While we are on the subject of european hygene, lets get the U.N. to buy the British some toothpaste...
birch
7:36:01 PM
7/08/02

Oui Oui! Haw haw haw!
Artex
7:42:52 PM
7/08/02

i have to pee...
stratdewd
8:44:09 PM
7/08/02

All i can say is...











thank god for Drive Thru....
wild flower
11:56:33 AM
7/09/02

HDJs doesn't have a drive-thru!
Geobeet
12:11:41 PM
7/09/02

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