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Nervous Habits -> sniffing/smelling/rot
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Kevin
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Aug 11, 2009 12:01PM
ok - just Binged! that and now i know....
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Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I'm a bibliovore, myself."You don't eat books, Jackie.
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I devoured a book just last night, Heidi. It wasn't very good, though, and I have a touch of bad plot indigestion.
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i did finish the Booky-Wook book but i don't want to use the words devoured and russell brand in the same sentence. oopsie, just did.
(punches wall)
Don't take your lead from Sally, Kevin, leave the poor walls alone.
:::trundles around with a bucket of plaster and a trowel:::There, all patched! Now should we repaint, or go with padded walls for a change?
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Trundle from Merriam Webster:1 a : to propel by causing to rotate : roll b archaic : to cause to revolve : spin
2 : to transport in or as if in a wheeled vehicle : haul, wheel
intransitive verb
1 : to progress by revolving
2 : to move on or as if on wheels : roll
— trun·dler \ˈtrən(d)-lər, ˈtrən-dəl-ər\ noun
I guess my bucket of plaster was on a trolley, Sally. :)
I think you're probably an omnivore, Kevin. Unless you eat ONLY meat, in which case, just how clogged are your arteries?
yeah. most likely. i say it like i was italian with the last syllable being a long A
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Like a record baby, right round, round round.
Mindy wrote: "Now if only y'all could all come over and help me explore my new 'hood!"I know of a delicious bakery in Astoria. (actually i think there are a billion delicious bakeries in Astoria.)
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "and then he smells his fingers right afterward. all the time. very strange and unnerving to me"Okay, I've thought about this some more... trying to make sense of it (because really, it DOES seem strange upon reading it, Kevin). The lip sucking thing, I dunno what to say about that, but I could see that as a nervous habit for people and not feel the urge to question why, but the finger smelling struck me as particularly odd when I read this yesterday. So when I was in the elevator to get to the parking deck at work yesterday afternoon, I caught myself sticking my fingers over my nose so I could smell my own scent (I had just washed my hands a few minutes before then) because the elevator stunk of body odor and cigarette smoke, VERY strongly (not uncommon in a hospital). I also realized I do that sort of thing quite a bit - I have a VERY sensitive nose and when I smell my hand or shirt or fingers, it's comforting and I can tolerate the odor a bit more when I do it. So maybe your friend smells his fingers because, in his mind, it's more discreet than sticking his nose inside his shirt or sticking his whole hand over his face.
BunWat wrote: "Oh, I do that too! If there's a bad smell I will put my hand or my hair over my nose to smell something different. Is that why he's puckering his lips? Because there's a bad smell? Ruh roh."Maybe when he's under stress, his senses are heightened, particularly his olfactory senses. It could happen.
the lip deal is like he is looking for a straw that isn't there. the fingers thing i have noticed coincides with the invisible straw thing, immediately following. maybe it is some kind of comfort in his own smell. he is a hard worker and maybe his hands smell like oil or something and this is a comfort zone for him. very odd and nerve-racking for me.
BunWat wrote: "Sure. Or maybe he thinks Kevin smells funny. "
Maybe we need to set up a camera to see if he does it when Kevin's not around.
Maybe we need to set up a camera to see if he does it when Kevin's not around.
now that i think of it he also does a little itchy nose move too where you try to wiggle your nose to scratch iti always smell like a combo of hot sauce, oil, dirt, and lime verbena which is my current flavor o da month from bath & body
BunWat wrote: "Bath and body makes my nose itch. A lot. I begin to wonder if this finger sniffing person isn't fragrance sensitive. "
That's why we want to camera for when Kevin isn't around! :-).
That's why we want to camera for when Kevin isn't around! :-).
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I don't typically like the smell of most Bath & Body Works products (with the exception of their Exotic Coconut, Cool Citrus Basil - both are no longer in the stores, & Warm Vanilla Sugar). I do like a line that they carry though - Ile de Tahiti. The Tiare fragrance is my fave.
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This is why it takes the human body much longer to decompose than it did 200 years ago. We're all pre-lubing our skin with formaldehyde 50-70 years in advance. Must make morticians jobs easier.
oh yeah, i also smell like onions often. i love em
I don't like most lotions, because of their smell. I don't know how many times I thought it smelled okay in the bottle, but on my hands, and near my face, it turned out to be too strong for that kind of proximity.Why do lotions have to smell like ANYTHING?
I like the smell of onions, but not on my hands.
I've tried lemons, but they don't seem to work. Maybe I didn't give it enough time.Now lemon is a smell I like on my hands. And rosemary. And actual lavender plant, though usually not lavender scented soaps or lotions.
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Really? Stainless steel? Weird!
i love the smell of wild onions when you mow them down
I like the smell of grass when it's mowed.
Picking your ... oh I see you've stopped. Never mind. :)
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It makes you look distinguished.
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Ew.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "I pull on my hair. Also I turn my ear inside out."How do you go about turning your ear inside out?
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Sally wrote: "I lost my tweezers. I can't stop stroking my beard whiskers."I love stroking my beard. So villainy.
Lobstergirl wrote: "I just turn the top half inside out."Well, that hurts. I think it might make your ears a little Spocky.
i work with a guy who habitually sniffs his fingers. like a tic or something. so very very weird
