Surprise, surprise—it’s poop-related!!!

Via Wikipedia:

The Guinness Book of Records lists two smelliest substances. One is “US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor“; a mixture of eight chemicals with a stench resembling human feces, only much stronger, designed to test the efficacy of deodorizers and air fresheners. Another one, “Who me?”, is a mixture of five sulfur-containing chemicals and smells like rotting food and carcasses.

And then:

Who Me was a top secret sulfurous stench weapon developed by the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II to be used by the French Resistance against German officers. Who Me smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer, humiliating him and, by extension, demoralizing the occupying German forces.

The experiment was very short-lived, however. Who Me had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not, the person who did the spraying also ended up smelling as bad as the one targeted. After only two weeks it was concluded that Who Me was a dismal failure.

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Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more....

9 replies on “The Best Thing I Learned Today”

  1. Little did they know, that the pungency of a fart to German indicates his status and strength. Those sprayed with “Who me?” would be immediately escalated up the ladder of the High Command. Hitler was well known to tour his troops and suddenly do a 180 and cut the cheese in approval. And of course, he established the Jugendfarten — his crack troop of little toots.

  4. “When you absolutely, positively need to clear out the meeting room right now, just clandestinly crop dust it with ToOt SwEeT brand flatulence mist…”

  6. My recent visit to Feierabend in Belltown reminded me that those who habitually dine on bratwurst and sauerkraut would only laugh at supplemental applications of fart smell.

  9. OOH! OOH! Video game idea. Wait for it, wait for it, here it is:
    Call of Dooky
    As a group of heavily-armed guerrillas threaten to destabilize a small but diplomatically important central-Asian nation, potentially throwing the entire region into turmoil, the United Nations are powerless to intervene due to bickering and red tape. Play as a top-secret covert American agent to infiltrate the rebel army, sow dissension, and ultimately discredit their leaders.
    “I love the smell of ass in the morning…”

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