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- NEED MORE INFO PLZ: Wonkette olfactory operative “Lim” wrote earlier this morning, “I now corroborated with multiple people that downtown DC today smells like dog-shit. Everywhere you go, everything just smells like shit. What the hell is going on?” Lanny Davis. Lanny Davis is what’s going on. We have no idea, Limmy. If you, the local Wonkette reader, also smell dog shit in Downtown DC, first check the soles of your shoes, and if they’re clear then try to locate the source for an exciting Wonkette “pooper scoop.” (Ugh.) Go!
My god, who forgot to change Cheney’s diaper? Seriously, people.
It’s an attack by terrorist dogs. Or not.
I will not comment about D.C. because many of you are from there. This shall be my statement of protest.
How is this different from the average monday morning?
It must relate to this previous Wonkette post:
http://wonkette.com/403336/secret-bailout-bill-rider-all-washington-citizens-must-drink-filthy-blood
So full of it it overflows?
When exactly did the Republicans who were swept away in the Hope-tide have to clear out their offices?
Someone finally pulled Ted Steven’s finger.
@Monsieur Grumpe:
The series of tubes is relieved.
Well, it seems that the dogs can’t read the signs around our fair capital. What, with all of the bullshit from the whitehouse for 8 years, maybe they thought no one would notice the smell
It’s the incredible number of Ginkgo trees we have in the city. They produce a yello soft fruit the size of a very large cherry, that smells exactly like dog poop. The deep freeze we just went though helps to release their pungent odor.
A few years ago the city tried to treat the female trees so that they wouldn’t produce fruit, and it seemed to help, but they haven’t done again since then.
Cy_Guy: Friggin’ ginkgo commies.
Cy_Guy: Oh you, with your “facts” and “information”. A regular “Mr. Dendrology”, you are.
I prefer to believe that the Obama dog is simply announcing his arrival.
Speaking of Lanny Davis: http://www.slate.com/id/2198745/
…in case you missed this gem back in August.
I guess this only explains Manhattan.
http://gawker.com/stalker/natalie_portman
It’s stinky berries from female gingko trees. They’re all over the place, and when stepped on they burst out with a horrible vomit-and-feces-like stink that gets carried all over the city by people’s shoes.
The olfactory operative’s full name isn’t Lim Burger by any chance, is it? Because that would explain a lot.
It’s fitting that the streets of DC are lined with poop trees.
Ha Ha. Losers live in a poop tree city.
Someone on K Street check under the leaves for Tom DeLay’s body.
brownpau: I had no idea they are gingko trees. They’re all over Philadelphia too. We call them “shitberries” because calling them “gingko berries” would have required someone typing in “shitberries” in Wikipedia, which is very difficult.
Ladies will not talk to you after you’ve walked through a pile of the fallen terrorist berries.
One time I was in a supermarket in Paris, A GOD-DAMN FUCKING SUPERMARKET, and I stepped in a rather large pile of french poodle poo.
This explains everything.
The running dog lackeys of imperialism are just reminding us that they’re still in charge.
When I lived in DC, I LOVED the stinky ginkos, mainly because they drove the yuppies, Hill drones and other assorted douchebags in my gentrifying neighborhood absolutely batshit. I miss you, stinky ginkos!
Wow. I had no idea. Mental note to not by a pretty, pretty ginko tree for the backyard …
Oooh, a science post! Ginkos have been around for nearly 270 million years, predating Ted Stevens and the Magna Carta. When they got themselves started smelling up the planet we had just one continent and DC was incontinent.
Ginkos are native to China. They sent them to DC to remind us who’s boss.
bluetom00: I used to refer to them as “asswood” trees when I lived on a block in Brooklyn that was full of them. They really do stink.
Tra: Buy a male one. Only the females stink. Just saying.
Aardvark Gumbo: These things have some range, so if there’s a female ginko in the neighborhood, your tree can pollinate it. Granted, it’ll be the other tree that reeks, but you’ll have been a party to it. I’ll second bluetom00’s comments about Phila. We must’ve had 5 of them on our tiny block. The damn seeds got everywhere.
Ugh. I’m glad I live in Seattle, where the best tree ever is right outside my local tavern and is called a Caucasian Wingnut.
Wow - thanks, Dr. Science! There was a terrible stench on my street in Manhattan a couple weeks ago, around the same time these berries were all over the ground, but it seemed like more of an ambient stink - and it’s Manhattan, so I didn’t question it. (I’ve lived in DC and New York, and New York’s day-to-day stink puts DC to shame (or, not-shame). Philly in the summer after a rainstorm, however…)