So one has to wonder if your habit of tasting untastable stuff has something
to do with your 'ruined sense of smell'...?
However I too have had the pleas... er ...um... experience of 'tasting' used
diff oil, when a 5-speed Rabbit tranny I was bench-pressing into place
rotated in my hands and drenched me from nose to tits. Can I say 'tits' on
here?
Anyway- I dunno about the dog turd but it left me with a similar reflex to
the smell as when I once knocked off most of a bottle of Southern Comfort in
one sitting- for years afterward the slightest whiff of either one would
make me nearly puke. I mean an intantaneous and violent reaction...
Makes you wonder how many other people that's happened too... (the oil, not
the booze). Maybe we should start a club.

Cya,
Robert

p.s.: I wonder if there's a word for that smell/retch response- it's common
enough I think; my wife can't stand the smell of tequila. If there isn't
there at least ought to be a sniglet for it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bange" <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Healthiest way to lead an UnHealthy Vanagon lifestyle? (a long
attempt at Phrydey humour)

> >
>> So what's the "unhealthiest" thing(s) you've done, as regards your
>> Vanagon, to keep it running, get it running, come to peace with it,
>> make amends with it, or just "Keep The Love Alive"?
>>
>> Tasted every fluid on board, sometimes intentionally (to ID a puddle),
> sometimes unintentionally (blorp! drip right in the mouth!), including the
> grand old master of disgusting tasting automotive fluids, 90 weight gear
> oil
> from the  differential. It was so bad I felt like sucking a dog turd to
> get
> the taste out of my mouth. Now I always smell before tasting. My ruined
> sense of smell can't detect most things, but it can at least detect that
> whiff of sulfur that says "differential oil".
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"