Unmistakable smell grabs your attention

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 8/7/2002 | Richard Roeper

[wienerdog.com]

ping!

[Chi-townChief]

Richard Doper

[What Is Ain't]

How do you think Europeans got to be the way they are?

[Chad Fairbanks]

I know what this guy means, too... I had smelled the distinct aroma recently as well... hey, what's that in my ashtray???? Hmmm....

well, gotta go...

;0)

[yooper]

But can you see where the dude is coming from? I mean, I too experimented with the weed in college; I in fact once lit up a pipe in the McDonald's on Water Street in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in broad daylight. Hey, I was in McDonald's with some hungry friends and I wasn't hungry, so I made myself hungry. Its called being sociable. Of course, I was in the general vicinity of Madison, Wisconsin, so no one gave me a second glance.

What the hell was I talking about?

[Unknown Freeper]

When I read the title, I thought this was going to be another Ole Crusty thread.

[wienerdog.com]

Chicago in the summer time, especially the roofs of the Loop's many parking garages, is a frequently fragrant, friendly place to frolic.

[copycat]

As for the more brazen types who are firing up the joints or the one-hitters in the great outdoors, maybe they're getting high a little bit too often and they're forgetting where they're at.

Cops are not going to "pinch" someone with a single joint. It's a misdemeanor, like jaywalking, and not worth the time.

Now selling it out in public is another story...

[Dakmar]

Us Hoosiers describe it as "A Pungent Odor", LOL.

[wienerdog.com]

I think it's officially a "sickeningly sweet" smell not unlike burned rope.

[Jesse]

Jeez, this must be some kind of a record for FR. 10 posts and not a hard core drug warrior among them.

[Dakmar]

"Sickeningly-sweet" is at one ond of the spectrum, "Earthy" at the other.

[wienerdog.com]

Jeez, this must be some kind of a record for FR. 10 posts and not a hard core drug warrior among them

I don't think there's much they can say. They can attack the author, or the poster, but the reality is that we live in a dopey society. You can either live with it or rant impotently about it like so many of the paleocons sputtering about these days with their undies in a perpetually painful bunch.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Unmistakable smell grabs your attention

Hmmm... and here I was thinking they were talking about that stomach turning smell one associates with Macon, Ga. The one all the locals blame on the "Paper Mill". If that's the case that is one NASTY FUNKY smelling paper mill.

[Publius]

I can top that.

The Hollywood Bowl, 1980, summer venue for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

My date and I were seated in a box up front shared with two ladies around age 60. (We didn't know them.) During the intermission, I smelled that unmistakable smell. To my girlfriend I said in a conversational tone, "Somebody's smoking weed."

From behind me, the two old ladies were going, "Sh-h-h-h! S-hh-h-h!" I looked behind me, and they were passing a doob back and forth.

I tried to hide my smile, and everything would have been fine except that my girlfriend was an extrovert and just had to draw them into conversation.

"Oh, we grow it at home," one lady said. By now my smile was turning into laughter, and I was working mightily to suppress it.

"We grow it in the window box by the front potch," the other lady said. Now I had to bite my cheeks to prevent myself from laughing, and tears were beginning to roll down my face.

If only it had stopped there.

When one lady said, "It's too good to be just for the young," I lost it. I broke out into gales of laughter and mortally offended everyone present.

I still giggle at the memory.

[HP8753]

The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 is what started the "Road to Illegality for the "BUD".Money grubbing Politicians took lots of cash from Dupont to outlaw it,So as to make way for a synthetic fiber (Nylon).

The old gals were "Talking to the Bunny" ;-)

[Dakmar]

Sorry if this comes as a shock to you, but every town that has a paper mill smells kinda funky. I think towns that have that smell attract paper mills.

[Rollee]

Sanctimonious, gun-grabbin, Ann Coulter hating, liberal little Richie Roeper. A bigger dweeb never walked. A few hits may do him a world of good. Maybe then he would slide off of his high horse (ha, ha) and get a good taste of reality.

[jodorowsky]

Up here, in Chaos City, Ontario in the summer, scofflaw ruffians smoke pot on the downtown streets or on pub patios all the time. And it's hardly surprising any more to smell that smell wafting down the street any time of day. Nobody cares.

(That's how you can tell real crimes from phony ones.)

Now if we could only get the police to behave in the same civilized way as everyone else... : )