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Sue H
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quotePosted at 21:17 on 7th April 2009

I thought of this after Anna's thread on bird song.

Many smells evoke memories for me.

Musk by Coty (or Jovan) and BRUT by Faberge (which I have not smelt in years) take me right back to the early 70's.

Coaltar soap, back to my childhood. I can't believe my mum made me use that stuff.

TCP takes me back to when I had my ears pierced, and I must have used a bottle of it when they started going a bit red. 

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Ray Stear
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quotePosted at 21:27 on 7th April 2009

The smell of new-mown hay always reminds me of when I was sweet on a farmer's daughter at 16 years of age. I visited her daily during the harvest season, and her dad had me out from dawn till dusk raking hay and stacking the stooks.

After the harvest, she dumped me!Frown

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Jason T
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quotePosted at 21:36 on 7th April 2009

Vomit Excrement, stale beer and cigarettes always remind me of the pleasures of work!!Laughing

 

Sweet tobacco smoke!! i know it sounds bad, but it always reminds me of my great uncle hal!!

As Ray, i lovethe smell of fresh mown grass! reminds me of summers!

Burning rubber, nitromethane, hot dust, and burger vans! always remind me of going drag racing at Santa Pod as a kid!! with my Dad and his mates, in BIG custom cars with huge engines!! good days!!

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Krissy
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quotePosted at 21:38 on 7th April 2009

Thank for that Jason, I just ate my lunch. Tongue out

I don't have a strong sense of smell so I don't have anything to put here. Frown

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Ray Stear
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quotePosted at 21:39 on 7th April 2009
On 7th April 2009 21:36, Jason T wrote:


Burning rubber, nitromethane, hot dust, and burger vans! always remind me of going drag racing at Santa Pod as a kid!! with my Dad and his mates, in BIG custom cars with huge engines!! good days!!

 

Hi Jason, yes that reminds me of the Pod too, I used to go there a lot in the 70's and 80's on duty.

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Shirley K. Lawson
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quotePosted at 21:40 on 7th April 2009

Ray, I am beginning to feel sorry for you...she dumped you, heh...all that work too! I knew an gal use to buy an new pair of shoes everytime she had an new boyfriend, sometimes she'd make them pay for them, she has an huge closet full of shoes Ray...something to be aware of maybe. I like fresh lawns mowed, I'll agree with you in that one, but I always like my mother making homemade Grape Jelly also, or Apple pie, or Roast Beef dinners...and for posies..Lilac's, Hycinthe, Roses.....I like breakfast cooking out in the woods "camping"also something about the bacon I think...rain, when i ffirst starts in an hot summertime, line dried clothing.

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Sue H
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quotePosted at 21:40 on 7th April 2009
I love the smell of freshly mown grass and hay. 
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Barbara Shoemaker
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quotePosted at 21:47 on 7th April 2009

Freshly mown grass and the smell of the wild onions that were cut along with the grass (maybe that's a southern thing, I don't know).

When I lived in New Mexico, every September/October I remember the smell of chiles roasting all over the city (Albuquerque) along with the smell of burning firewood.  Heavenly!

Bed linens that were hung outside to dry in the sunshine remind me of summers as a child.

 

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Jason T
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quotePosted at 21:48 on 7th April 2009

Ray I used to go in the 80's!!   saw sammy miller break the world record in his rocket car!!  oh i used to love it!! loved all the old funny cars!!

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Ray Stear
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quotePosted at 21:56 on 7th April 2009
I saw the rocket Car! Unimaginable noise and power. I used to see DLT racing his pro fuel dragster, the 'Needle' do you remember that?
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