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Subject:Re: Cold weather camping, heating, etc.
From:mike miller
Date:Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:16:19 -0800

Shame Rachel!

That's in bad taste [or smell, as it were]

> From: Gnarlodious <Gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Reply-To: Gnarlodious <Gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:26:53 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Cold weather camping, heating, etc.
>
> Entity Karl Wolz spoke thus:
>
>> Admittedly my organic chemistry classes occurred 20+ years ago, but I
>> remember butyl (or methyl) mercaptan as being what gives the lovely odor to
>> one's liquid waste after eating asparagus and crotonaldehyde as the main
>> component of a skunk's stench. (One remains up on this sort of thing when
>> living with Karl.)
>>
>> Stephanie
>
> As long as it is Halloween, isn't there a substance called cadaverine that
> makes corpes smell so bad?
>
> Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com
>