Earthquake in Chile, possible tsunamis to hit San Diego and Hawaii, Al Gore in exile, Obamacare on the horizon, US vs. Canada tomorrow in an epic Olympic Hockey brawl…so today’s post is on…
February 27th, 2010 at 2:12 pm by Nigel…BO.
Not Barack Obama, though I do often think of BO when I think of him.
No, we’re talking body odor…and I am calling BS on this hard-hitting NBC report which lists the top 7 cities for BO (via Hot Air headlines):
* Yuma, AZ #7
* San Antonio, TX #6
* New Orleans, LA #5
* Chicago, Il #4
* Phoenix, AZ #3
* Houston, TX #2
* Las Vegas, NV #1
Uh…no. I have spent time in all of these cities (extensive time in Yuma, Phoenix, San Antonio and Houston) and I can tell you that this report misses the most obvious one…
New York.
Ever spent a July afternoon on the “R” train headed to Brooklyn? Or even a mid-February day, when people don’t bother to clean their overgarments? PEEEE….EWWWWW! A New Yawk friend of mine explained that many New Yorkers just “give up” on hygiene since they have to walk everywhere and the stank just seems to stick to them.
I spend about a month of every year in Yuma and I can tell you there might be stink from the agriculture but
I can’t ever recall that stink being on humans.
The WORST smell I have ever smelled was in New Orleans, but that had nothing to do with BO…it was a few weeks after Katrina right outside of the Superdome (they were taking the water-soaked turf out).
Another town NBC missed…Oakland. Ever been to a Raider game?
Thoughts? Any disgusting BO stories y’all might have?
February 27th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
I did two post-Katrina clean-ups. The city smelled like dirty mop water, and everything, even in the above-board establishments out of the French Quarter, was sticky. Oddly though, I didn’t see many New Orleanseans, mostly volunteers. Not saying it’s a lazy city, but…OK, that’s exactly what I am saying. A smelly, lazy city.
I lived in Las Vegas for four years. Dusty and smoggy, but not too smelly.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
I’ll nominate Houston. Although that was post-Katrina so it was really just West New Orleans.
Like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown, the N.O. diaspora refugees can always be spotted by the stinky cloud that hovers over them.
February 28th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I love new York but I agree it should be near the top of the list in August. You could add breath smells on the subway, curry, garlic, bad teeth and things I don’t want to think about.