On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:42:20 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

> I know Bryan's hypersensitive sense of smell is real. I discovered
> that a year or so ago when we were standing more than 6 feet from
> Bryan's wife's basil plant and he was whinging about the basil smell.
> I could not smell it until I walked over to the plant and rubbed the
> leaf and smelled my finger! I have a HYPOsensitive sense of smell and
> taste.

I'm a bit better at it than you are, I can actually smell basil a few
feet away if the wind isn't blowing the scent away (at my house, you
can't smell honeysuckle or jasmine because the wind blows the perfume
away unless you bury your nose in it), but I know I can smell jasmine
40 feet away if I'm in a still, hot environment and I can smell basil
15 feet away - so my smeller isn't off. I've never had the
opportunity to smell honey suckle at a distance and although I grow it
(and jasmine) - odor has never been an issue at my house. They don't
even attract hummingbirds. Just stating the maximum distances I've
had the opportunity to smell the other two under perfect (hot & still)
conditions. Getting back to hummingbirds... Mexican sage seems to be
the heroin for hummingbirds - even the plants that grow in half
shade.
>
> But Bryan's condemnatory decreeing of everything he doesn't like as
> crap is bullshit, IMHO.

Agreed! I wouldn't mind it he used different terminology (which he
did tonight), because what's awful for him isn't awful for everyone
else and no one wants to be dictated to as if he's their domineering
father/mother. IE: if he doesn't like it, nobody else is allowed to
like it and he shouts them down if they dare to object. Think about
the people on Jerry Springer.

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