A perfect metaphor for the Trump candidacy! Most politicians sprout rhetoric that attracts 'sweet honey'-loving public to pollinate their ideas. But the magic of evolution once in a while produces a perverse species that succeeds for a time saying, "I'll stink to high heaven and draw maggots and carrion lovers to pollinate and propagate my inchoate views". And we have Trump just echoing that beguiling plant, oh, but so much worse!
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It's New York, it always stinks!
Oh come on NYT's we need to have a video generated for this story! That, or at least many slides of the flower the garden where it sits and those dedicated workers on this projnect.
Not allowing funeral homes to prepare the food is still a good idea. Especially finger food.
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When is the last time you thought temperatures in the 80s was a cold snap??
I'll skip the stink, tho' I'd like to see it. Got a dead deer too close to home already.
As for food and drink in a funeral home: I once did have a cup of coffee at a funeral home ( they knew I was wiped out) but they never let on that it was a serious crime. It wasn't exactly a buffet. Putting together another wake, I was exasperated by how dark and stuffy it felt -- and decided to raise the shades to let in light: that didn't fly at all. It's illegal for the windows to be uncovered, open to the world in NYC -the reasoning seems to be that anyone passing by will be overcome with shock if they can see what's in there .....
How about Red Sox scores???
As for food and drink in a funeral home: I once did have a cup of coffee at a funeral home ( they knew I was wiped out) but they never let on that it was a serious crime. It wasn't exactly a buffet. Putting together another wake, I was exasperated by how dark and stuffy it felt -- and decided to raise the shades to let in light: that didn't fly at all. It's illegal for the windows to be uncovered, open to the world in NYC -the reasoning seems to be that anyone passing by will be overcome with shock if they can see what's in there .....
How about Red Sox scores???
Missouri Botanical Garden's Corpse Plant bloomed two weeks ago. Was great fun taking the grandkids there to gross them out.
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Got a free Botanical Gardens pass from my library to save the twenty dollars it costs to get in , but the amorphophallus didn't open on Monday. I even brought a container of natto ( stinky fermented japanese soybean goop ) to snack on for the occasion. My 3-day pass is still good so I'll try again today. But here's a question I have: If the insect pollinators can only see two colors and red is not one of them, being on the low end of the color spectrum, why are we assuming it looks like meat to them? Chances are it has to do with contrast not chroma.
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"The smell of rotting flesh will soon be wrinkling noses in the Bronx."
Newcomers', maybe.
Newcomers', maybe.
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I'm stuffing my face with cauliflower, beans, cabbage, eggs, and meat; and then I'm heading to the Bronx to see this stinking corpse flower. I should blend in quite well!
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"In 1986, a beluga whale was killed by gunfire off of Bridgeport."
No words.
But as for bringing food into funeral parlors: It won't be pretty. There's this disconnect between people's fingers and their mouths, and all sorts of things end up on the floors.
And I don't want to smell someone's pizza or garlicky whatever wafting in from another room when I have my own serious life stuff to deal with.
No words.
But as for bringing food into funeral parlors: It won't be pretty. There's this disconnect between people's fingers and their mouths, and all sorts of things end up on the floors.
And I don't want to smell someone's pizza or garlicky whatever wafting in from another room when I have my own serious life stuff to deal with.
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Where did the "week in pictures" link on NY Today go to? Those of us that are "electronically challenged" had accessed it thru this column.
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Which smells worse, the DNC or the corpse flower?
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Maybe you should go hang out at Trump Tower
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For the staff at the Botanical Garden, a flowery tribute.
Tune of “The Rose”
Some say love, it is a daisy
That casts a lover’s spell
Some say love, it is a rosebud
That makes the passion swell
Some say love, it’s a carnation
As pretty as its smell
They say love, it is that corpse thing,
Whose odor stinks like hell
It’s the staff, so tired of waiting
For the bloom they want to share
And they sit anticipating,
For the scent so foul and rare.
After years of cultivation
With tender loving care
They’re hyped up for the sensation
Of what soon will fill the air
When their day is filled with worry
‘Cause the air is far too fresh
And it seems they’re in a hurry
For the scent of rotting flesh
Let’s remember it’s the summer
With the heat that grows and grows
It’s a stench that when the bloom buds
With a whiff, will numb The Nose
Tune of “The Rose”
Some say love, it is a daisy
That casts a lover’s spell
Some say love, it is a rosebud
That makes the passion swell
Some say love, it’s a carnation
As pretty as its smell
They say love, it is that corpse thing,
Whose odor stinks like hell
It’s the staff, so tired of waiting
For the bloom they want to share
And they sit anticipating,
For the scent so foul and rare.
After years of cultivation
With tender loving care
They’re hyped up for the sensation
Of what soon will fill the air
When their day is filled with worry
‘Cause the air is far too fresh
And it seems they’re in a hurry
For the scent of rotting flesh
Let’s remember it’s the summer
With the heat that grows and grows
It’s a stench that when the bloom buds
With a whiff, will numb The Nose
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Outstanding Freddie!
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You are such a genius. I like this better than the original!
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Cardinals bless Mets 3-2; Mets excommunicate Cardinals 3-1.
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