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I'm always amazed at just how finely tuned our senses are with the environment we're in at any given time. Have you ever been away from your shop for any length of time, come back, opened the doors, and were enveloped by the faint odours of works long since gone? A sign shop seems to have an aroma all it's own, and very often reflects the nature of the work done there. Others have remarked on the aroma in the Rapid-Tac...or how about the odor when adhereing hand-cut lacquer stencils?
Other odours can be obnoxious and offensive...and not necessarily sign-related. I had occasion to be downwind of a young lady today, who hadn't yet discovered that "less is more" when applying perfume. This girl left a vapour trail that would compare with that of a small plane. Probably blew her babysitting money on some fragrance at Wal-Mart, priced at $7.50 a gallon...and it smelled like it too.
I like the smell of freshly-cut lumber, a new roll of vinyl, and a newly-arrived cheque. Strongly dislike the smell of vinyl screen inks, zinc chromate primer, and burnt bakelite.
So, what odours, sign-related or not, do you like, or dislike?
------------------ Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail kjmlhenry@home.
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I sped lots ub hoursd in dis shob and the sbells neber bodderd be. Wait..............there,..........it's easier to talk with this clothespin off. Now.........what was that again????? :^)
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Around the shop, I sort of like the smell of turpentine and linseed oil.
A few years back I thought I was going to have some odors I didn't want. I live next door to my shop and one evening I had been working late on some hobby projects. I had gone to the house and remembered I had left one of the overhead doors open. I went back to close it and damned if there wasn't a great big skunk in the shop. Well, I wasn't going to try to kick him out and I sure as hell wasn't going to lock him in the shop. I trusted fate, and left the shop door open. Next morning, he was gone and hadn't left any traces, so I guess I lucked out on that one.
Jerry Mathel Jerry Mathel Signs Grants Pass, Oregon signs@grantspass.com
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night blooming jasmine, in full bloom...a great lookin lady wearing schalimar perfume..patcholi in the bedroom...coffee in the morning..or griding coffee in the store, the smell of fresh cut hay, or a field of clover in bloom, the smell of wood burning in a fireplace, the smell after a rain....air dryed sheets.....and pillow cases....how newborn babies smell...bad smells...the great and wonderful sewerage treatment plants...a meat packing plant,(and you guys eat that stuff that comes outa there)car rear end oil..yuk! cod liver oil...almost the same...kimshe... pickled herring, pickled pigs feet...pickeled eggs and the methane gas they create....hahahaha old paint joe
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Ken, Know what you mean by the less is too much! Car salesmen seem to buy the men's version of the same stench WalMart sells for women. I just don't get it, why do you need more than a bath and a deodorant to have a pleasant smell. I hate it when these bozos come into a restaurant and destroy the fragrance of a steak searing on the grill. Can't recall all of the times I've had to wipe my phone with pre-clean to get someones cheap perfume off. If they only knew how they smelled! Must be a competitive thing in office buildings to see who can stink the loudest, hate to have to get on an elevator. Almost forgot what the post was about! My shop has those smells from previous jobs over many years, a change in weather can sometimes trigger a new smell. We sometimes get too acustomed to the shop smells and a customer will bring to our attention. Clean fresh-cut pine in the wood shop has wonderful stirrings as does the faint smell of lacquers. Think I'll go and stick my nose in a pile of sawdust before I go home tonight.
------------------ Larry
Elliott Design McLemoresville, Tn.
If you can't find the time to do it right, where gonna find the time to do it over?
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Well..Before a couple of good crops of nasal polyps I used to have a sense of smell! What I liked then was the smell of lacquer paints..sweetest smell in the world! Also liked the smell of fresh cut grass, the air after a lightning storm, frying onions, a turkey in the oven.
Now that I have no sense of smell I really enjoy the smell of someone else's methane, my neighbours' spreading of manure on the fields surrounding our place, and the wonderful aroma of a road-kill skunk!
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Heh heh heh...watch what you're revealing here Dave. Someone may get to believing that you'd be the PERFECT roomate at a letterheads meet where they served Chili, with beer & pickled eggs afterward. You might get more whiffs of methane than one would normally want.
------------------ Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail kjmlhenry@home.
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Last night my daughter sprayed some of that bathroom deodorizer stuff. That's the worst! It still smells like that after 30 hours!
I have a friend that uses alot of this cologne, and we often greet with a hug. He'd leave and the smell would be all over me. It'd be in the office and everywhere. I Once told him....no more hugs...we'll talk out here in the parking lot with some space between us. Next time he came by, he was quick to point out he had no cologne on. He was enlightened. A gentle word spoken with caring can often change the world...a little bit anyway.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
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Fersh cut grass...especially the first time the lawns get mowed...about this time of year.. And there is nothing like the smell of hay...just after its been raked and just as it is being baled!This is the time when the smell of rain becomes a demon.... Bacon in a cast iron spyder on a wood fire.. in the midst of an old stand of pines in the mountains... Young girls should be taught not ot marinate themselves in cheap foo-foo water!Yuk!
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***************************** WOnderful....... Meyer's variety lemons, and their blossoms! must be the scent in Heaven!) Grilled onions, fresh home baked bread, newly open can of coffee, the smell of (some) parts of China Town and Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. ***************************** Nasty..... :P Carborator cleaner, bug spray, One Shot (sorry guys) water left too long in a flower vase, the smell of (some) parts of China Town and Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco!
Adrienne
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Nothing like the smell of freshly ground coffee in the morning......babies sweet little feet to kiss......fresh morning air...a spring rain...the smell after a thunder and lightening storm.....Oh and Old Paint.....you have excellent taste in women's perfume :O)
------------------ "surf" Cheryl Nordby Signs by Cheryl 206 300-0153 Seattle Washington
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Had my nose broke a coupla times once wassa compund fracture,... but if ya must know,...nitro-methanane, & burning rubber: Aviation fuel slightly higher octane than normal & clutches & brake pads cooking.
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