Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath?

Jim Hawkins writes "Well, in case you never have the chance of getting up close and personal with a T.Rex, Dale Air, a company who 'nose' its smells, has recreated Tyrannosaurus Rex's breath for London's Natural History Museum. Seems people made a stink about the rotting flesh smell that would exist on T-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."

Comments

T-Rex breath

[birdwax2k]

Supposedly it smells a lot like T-Rex ass.

Re:T-Rex breath

[arivanov]

More likely like xenofobia:

Notice the article URL: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/27/britain .smells.reut/index.html

Re:T-Rex breath

[Anonymous Coward]

spell worst then shit.

Ya certainly do!

Re:So...

[Paleomacus]

Yeah but the chicken's heads they bit off were way bigger.

"news for nerds"

[Anonymous Coward]

"stuff that matters"

Re:"news for nerds"

[Anonymous Coward]

Format change today: "nose for nerds - sniff that matters"

Re:"news for nerds"

[Anonymous Coward]

News for five-year-olds. Stuff that's gross.

Geek's version

[nacturation]

This article should take you back to the dot-com glory days. The opening paragraph:

"After an uncomfortable pause, he looked straight into the eyes of the woman he'd loved for years. As he moved in for the kiss, he caught a whiff of her shoulder and immediately thought of his computer."

Obvious joke.

[ideatrack]

guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth

Well it is in England...

And I'm English before anyone gets upset ;)

Re:Obvious joke.

[jjjefff]

I'm not sure the stereotype is "from nowhere." Take a look at what some Brits have to say on the subject:

Until the NHS started up, and before the availability of fluoride in toothpaste (or water), our British teeth were spectacularly ugly. Look at any film footage of average Britons before about 1945, and weep. The standard of living of the contemporary American probably afforded them better dental care; and, I suspect, a certain cultural austerity would have meant that corrective procedures such as braces would be regarded by us Brits as extravagance and vanity.
- Simon Gilman, London UK

I think Simon Gilman has put it best. Having spent my first 20 years in America and 14 years since living in the UK, I find that the average Brit is satisfied with teeth that might be crooked, stained, even slightly rotten, if they aren't causing much discomfort to their owner. Average Americans have much higher standards of expectation in the state of their dental health -- regardless of whether they have to pay for dental treatment or not, they feel very strongly that good teeth are a wise investment in looks and health. Many visits to the dentist by average Brits happen only after something has gone horribly wrong with their teeth, whilst Americans take an actively preventative approach with semi-annual dental checkups and intervention before any problems become severe. As a result of the greater amount of attention that Americans pay to their teeth, they are far more likely to notice and comment on the state of other people's teeth.
- Wendy James, London UK

And this is just too funny not to include:

I don't know about the States, but here in Mexico the common phrase to describle 'wonky' teeth is 'dientes ingles' (English teeth).
- Iain Pearson, Mexico City Mexico

Britain Smells?

[upside]

Look at the URL. Those wisecracks at CNN couldn't resist a jibe, could they?

Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath?

[Anonymous Coward]

No.

And I prefer to keep it that way, ta.

Re:This is not news!

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, I think it's been there since 200.000.000 BC. :p

My T-Rex

[Timesprout]

Brushes and flosses regularly, then rinses with 5 gallons of Listerine. He say its worth it cos the ladies like good teeth. He does say he is struggling to find a decent scale moisturiser though. He's such a vain beast.

Re:My T-Rex

[Mr. Bad Example]

> He's such a vain beast.

Obviously he's a Mesozoicsexual.

morning breath...

[jcostantino]

I'd hate to have to wake up next to a female t-rex one morning.. don't they know that they should brush their tongues when they brush their teeth?

Re:morning breath...

[tehcyder]

Wow, you're really not fussy about who you sleep with are you?

No, I take it back, you did specify "female."

The smell of newbie in the morning

[AndroidCat]

"Say you've got help desk staff who are getting tense and frustrated -- they can press a button to get an aroma to help calm them down," Knight said.

And what aroma would that be? Luser eaten by a t-rex?

Smell o Vision

[Osgyth]

I'm just waiting for the horrid day where you are able to smell the programs on TV. Or sure, sounds great for the cooking shows, but what the "secret doorway" in Desperado? (FYI, it was a bathroom stall with shit spread all over the walls)

Re:Smell o Vision

[Mononoke]

I'm just waiting for the horrid day where you are able to smell the programs on TV.

I'll be leaving the room during the Kotex commercials.

She'll be leaving the room during the locker room interviews.

We'll both be leaving the room during the State of the Union address.

And the even more pressing question

[Zone-MR]

I believe they also have the porno-themed aroma.

It's listed as "Fish Market A123511"

Calming down

[Anonymous Writer]

The firm is testing an aroma dispenser which plugs into a computer and is controlled from the keyboard.

"Say you've got help desk staff who are getting tense and frustrated -- they can press a button to get an aroma to help calm them down," Knight said.

A case mod with a built-in bong would work much better.

Re:Calming down

[infinite9]

A case mod with a built-in bong would work much better

Heh, shows what I know. I thought the water was for cooling the cpu, not cooling the user.

So T Rex was a Linux programmer?

[Enlarge Your Penis]

Sounds like it from the description of his breath. Maybe they should rename him Stallmanosaurus

Re:Just to answer the pressing question

[asr_man]

And what about...

Aromas of Football - Changing Room

I'm not making this up, you know.

Considering T-Rex was a scavenger

[earthforce_1]

I don't think I would be particularly interested.

If you are really curious, leave a kilo of raw hamburger sitting on the kitchen counter for a couple of weeks, while you go on vacation. Your house will be filled with the lovely aroma of T-Rex breath upon your return.

Re:Nothing new is it?

[orthogonal]

Certainly when I saw it [the simulated Tyrannosaurus Rex breath] didn't smell all that bad.

Not to you, perhaps.

But since you post of Slashdot, you've no doubt had many more opportunities to build up resistance to much more devastating scents:

• unwashed geek with a beard full of Dorito crumbs,
• Mountain Dew fermenting in a shag carpet laid down in 1976,
• "magic-user" feet after a twelve-hour D&D marathon,
• the reek of Mom's basement after that dot-com "opportunity" fell through and an impoverished and dispirited Perl hacker moved home too depressed to shower.

And not to mention the full sensory assault of a GNU/noisome Richard Stallman.

(I keed, I keed!)

Ever smell T-Rex breath

[Cro Magnon]

Nope! But, to be fair, the T-Rex has never smelled my breath either!

". . . forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."

[Jack William Bell]

Not exactly. His parents reminded him every morning, but with those short arms...

Re:reason for smell

[thomasa]

failure of a slashdoter. Below is the link:

here

oh no...

[(1)down]

guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
This is the kind of humor that made us social outcasts in the first place....

really though, on a thousand levels this just isn't funny..

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[tr0p]

Shouldn't the t-rex icon be on this story instead of the story above it?

I'm still waiting for a Quake-Smell-O-Rama product

[cmdrwhitewolf]

So I don't have just imagine the smell of fresh napalm in the morning, but actually slap on the old MicroSmell game scent enhancer!

Re:Diabetes analysis is done now...

[StalinsNotDead]

isn't that what school is for?