Thursday, November 10, 2005

Smell for thought

Here is something to mull over. I recently read that in order for us to smell something, actual molecules of the thing we are smelling need to enter our nose. I did not know that! I mean, I knew that our nose interacted with the source of the smell in some way - but I did not imagine the connection would be quite so close as this. Interesting, huh?

Now, try to not remember this the next time you smell the spoilt milk or the stinky socks or the garbage or the ...

5 comments:

BZ said...

EEwwwwwww!!! :( Yucky. :)

Ganesh said...

First time here, came through SK

Nice one indeed.

But there is a hiphop slang that came to my mind.
'Smell you later bro'

Shilpa said...

Archu,

Thats not a good idea...you know I encounter many stink-bombs here :-)

Ginkgo said...

yikes...
coovum nadhi karaiyinile...:-)

u can complete that sentence..

Archana said...

Hehe, I got the 'yucks' feeling after reading about this. And wanted to spread the joy. "Yaam petra inbam..." ;-)