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Cow fart cans offer 'authentic smell of countryside'
metro.co.uk ^ | March 4, 2011

Posted on 03/04/2011 1:16:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Cans filled with the aroma of cow farts are proving a big hit with shoppers - despite costing £5 a tin.

Tins filled with the air sucked out of an ageing wooden stable, straw lined and filled with gas producing cattle has become an instant hit after it went on sale in Germany.

Managers of the 'Countryside air to go' project say their clients are mainly country people who have moved to the city and want to be reminded of home.

The cans cost £5 a pop and can be ordered from the web site www.stallduft.de

One advert boasts: 'Simply put your nose to the tin and peel back the lid for the authentic smell of the country'.

Designer Daniela Dorrer from the village of Adlkofen in Bavaria in Germany said: 'We hope to make people who miss the countryside happy and remind them of home.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cowfart; dairyair; fart; napl
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Let me get this straight...

A German company has caned the smell of cattle farts and is actually selling them? And people are BUYING them???

Okay...sign number 5,237 that The End is Near.


101 posted on 03/07/2011 12:06:21 AM PST by hoagy62 (I am a optimistic pessimist. I am positive that the world is going to Hell.)
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To: dixiechick2000

Lake Isabella. Big Bear, and the Cliffhanger Restaurant on the way up there. Palm Springs. Bodega Bay. Fisherman’s Wharf. The Mark Hopkins Hotel. Cambria and Harmony. Death Valley. Marina del Rey. The Century Plaza Hotel. The San Diego Zoo. The Santa Barbara Zoo. The L.A. Zoo.

I mourn California and miss the way it was more than I can say.

Don’t stop teasing me. I like your humor. ;-)


102 posted on 03/07/2011 4:57:57 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
Lake Isabella. Big Bear, and the Cliffhanger Restaurant on the way up there. Palm Springs. Bodega Bay. Fisherman’s Wharf. The Mark Hopkins Hotel. Cambria and Harmony. Death Valley. Marina del Rey. The Century Plaza Hotel. The San Diego Zoo. The Santa Barbara Zoo. The L.A. Zoo.

I used to live in southern california and have been to every one of the places you named except for the Mark Hopkins Hotel (never heard of it.) :0)

103 posted on 03/07/2011 5:01:32 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paulycy

The Mark’s in San Francisco. Hubby and I used to stay there on vacations.

You’ve been to the Cliffhanger?

We went in there one foggy evening when we were staying at Lake Gregory, and we were the only customers. Window seat, but too much fog to see the view of San Bernardino, or the trees outside for that matter. We saw it the next time though.

I’m going to get arrested for hijacking this thread.


104 posted on 03/07/2011 5:10:40 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
You’ve been to the Cliffhanger?

My parents took me when I was a kid. We won't hijack long. I spent my first 40 years in the San Gabriel Valley, doing lots of stuff and traveling about. It was a great time to be in Cali. Not now. We moved to central virginia a dozen years ago and it was a great move. It's a great time to be here. We are lucky.

105 posted on 03/07/2011 5:13:36 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paulycy

EEEEK! I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, in Hacienda Heights, and I moved to West L.A. in my 20’s. Bishop Amat, class of ‘64. Married at 32, and lived in The Valley (like, fer sher). Hubby got a job in Concord, so we moved to Benicia. Then another job took us to Ohio. Roots firmly down here, we bought a house.

Oddly, we almost moved to Virginia for a job there, but Hubby chose the one in Ohio instead.


106 posted on 03/07/2011 5:29:35 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

I was in the north east SGV, right up next to the mountains. We could walk up to the end of our street with our BB guns and go shooting in the hills. It was great. All sorts of orange, lemon and avocado groves around for the kids to have wars in (with the fruit, not the guns!) Pretty rural-type playgrounds for us but with all the suburban trappings of regular roads and housing tracts and all the regular neighborhood stuff. We had the best of both worlds I guess, looking back on it. It was a great place to grow up at that time.


107 posted on 03/07/2011 5:39:15 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paulycy

Nodding.


108 posted on 03/07/2011 5:47:54 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

I mourn California, too. Reagan was my governor. The state hasn’t been the same since.

The Embarcadero...what is that square close to there? Jack London Square? Or, something like that.

There was a bar that had a decided, at least, 30 degree slope down to the bay...inside the bar. If you were at a table, on one side your feet were on the ground. But, on the other side, you were sitting on a barstool. lol

The funniest thing about that bar is that, when a lady went to the restroom, she sat down and a flash went off. It was to make the lady think that her picture was taken!

I just did a little checking around and it might be Heinold’s First And Last Chance Saloon. In my search, it’s the only bar that mentions the slanted floor. Though, it sounds like it’s more “upscale” now than then, but they don’t cater to high maintenance people. It’s a “what you see is what you get” kinda place, and I like it!

I like your humor, too! ;o)


109 posted on 03/08/2011 12:08:50 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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Yeah. It’s true what they say, “you can never go home.” Ohio is really nice, especially away from the big cities (probably true everywhere), but my heart is in Texas. I’d love to live there.


110 posted on 03/08/2011 3:08:52 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

I’ve lived in Texas a couple of times. Once as a child, and then when my husband was in training to be a naval aviator. However, he was born there, and his parents retired there. So, we have a “home” there, too.

You can’t go wrong with Texas!

I bet Ohio is just like any regular place, as long as one is away from the two big cities. Kasich is doing a great job, and I hope they are able to reign in the unions without too much “bloodshed”.

I’m beginning to believe that we need a lot of good people who are willing to be one-termers.


111 posted on 03/08/2011 11:31:16 PM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: dixiechick2000

If I ever get to live in Texas, it’s going to take a total cataclysm to shake me out of there.


112 posted on 03/09/2011 4:56:30 AM PST by TheOldLady
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Well...I was seven years old when I left...except for the time when my husband received orders to go to CA.

If I got that close to my home...the only way I would be leaving would be in a body bag.

There’s a good reason why folks are fleeing south...


113 posted on 03/09/2011 11:37:15 PM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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It’s a shame when your parents drag you all over the place, and you have no say in the matter.

I missed the snow for 20 years when my parents moved to California, but then I visited Big Bear in the winter with Hubby (then boyfriend).

Of course in hindsight, I’m happy that they got me out of Massachusetts and that Ronnie was my governor for eight years.


114 posted on 03/10/2011 2:09:21 AM PST by TheOldLady
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LOL! When I said, “home”, I meant Mississippi! We moved back there when I was eight. But, all of us liked Texas so much that we would have stayed there, and been very happy with it. I know for sure because my in-laws are in Texas.

I’m in Oregon now, so if I want to visit snow, it’s a hop, skip and jump away. I never did see Big Bear, but spent a lot of time in the Sequoias east of Fresno. I loved El Capitan. To me, that was the most beautiful place in CA...except for Carmel and Montery.

The absolute best was that Ronnie was my governor, too.


115 posted on 03/11/2011 12:14:15 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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California and Oregon are really beautiful, but here in Ohio, one of the most pleasant views is the back yard. We live in a small forest in the middle of vast corn/soybean fields. We got about 5" of snow last night, so this will be the view from the house tomorrow:

That's what Hubby calls "sticks and snow," and he prefers the view during the other seasons, but I find this gorgeous.

116 posted on 03/11/2011 1:48:52 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

What a beautiful picture, and what a lovely view any season of the year!

But, I’m with your husband...snow is beautiful, but only in small doses a couple of times a year. lol


117 posted on 03/12/2011 12:16:23 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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As I said, the lack of snow in California left me pining for it, so I’m kind of imprinted wanting to have it. Spring is struggling to burst upon the scene here, and I’m not really ready for it yet. I miss Winter and snow really fast when it’s all gone.

Yes, most people are “sticks and snow” types. It takes all kinds to make us weather lovers. ;-)


118 posted on 03/12/2011 6:19:49 AM PST by TheOldLady
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It takes all kinds...and too many are not happy with their surroundings.

I absolutely love the summers here...but I was raised with heat and humidity. I can totally understand your longing for cold and snow. I feel just the same way about heat and sun.

BTW, the sweet daffodils are starting to show their color now. That means spring has officially arrived!

It’s not my idea of spring, though...so I will still complain...and be nostalgic about the springs of my youth. ;o)


119 posted on 03/13/2011 12:00:26 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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Oh, don’t misunderstand. I love weather, and while I prefer winter, the other seasons win me over fast enough each year.

We have a lot of leaf-peeper colors on our trees in the Fall. In the Spring, the birds and the buds are always delightful. In the Summer, well, it’s yard work and DEET for the deer flies, but you can’t win ‘em all, LOL!

I really do like Summer too.


120 posted on 03/13/2011 5:55:38 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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