"Oh my," we say, "That is a very keen sense of smell indeed."
Of course.
But I would suggest another focus for us to take regarding this: for cats and dogs, the senses of smell and taste do not track one another. For example, a cat may think that a houseplant has a powerful and distinct pungent smell, but it has no problem chewing on it daily because the taste is not bothersome; probably hardly discernible.
I mean, look at the stuff they eat.
Thought experiment: You can imagine the smell. You can put yourself in that fish house and take in the aroma. The fish are well-iced and it is a cool day, but you certainly feel your sense of smell activated by just the image. Now imagine that you are a cat in that same place. The smell would be intense, vastly more so than our own experience.
Yet there is a further departure: the cat would likely try to eat some of the raw fish right then and there.
Okay, so it's a subtle point.
It seems we humans have a strong sense of taste and many of us are quite willing to invest heavily in this.
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What is it called when you have conversations going on in your head but you are a non-participating mere spectator of these?
What if one of the "conversations" you are listening to is music? Just the counterpoint of that itself is pleasing to my ears.
I was going to go for a joke with that but it turned all serious/deep on me.
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If the U.S. Dollar were to collapse on the world market, the first thing I'd do would be to obtain a patent and copyrights to a kind of local currency which could be used in many of the most common daily transactions. I would be The Mint. This would require a complete change of wardrobe for my part.
Maybe a long white mink coat and a flashy broad-brimmed hat.
But this is Phoenix, so scratch the mink. I wouldn't wear fur anyway. Faux fur is a hundred times more stylish, if worn in the appropriate setting. (If you do a web search for "faux fur nurse scrubs," for example, you get nothing.)
I can't believe I googled that. And my spouse came in with the dogz just as I did so. Busted.
"So, what are you googling?" they asked.
Pause.
"Faux fur nurse scrubs," I timidly replied.
"Why?" my spouse above all others continued, "Do you want some?"
"Well," I pondered, "No. But I guess what I'm asking is do you think there's some kind of market for "hot nurse uniforms" even on just a costume market? Halloween and holidays? Or maybe for pornography? Aren't people doing this already?"
"Oh I'd bet," spouse above all others said, "And isn't that a wonderful thought."
"Then how would you google it?" I further asked.
Lots of unnaturally blond hair and vinyl here for example but no faux fur. Maybe there is indeed a buck to be made on this.
Christmas Nurse with red faux fur trim on their uniform. Transvestite Nurse with pastels or bolds, depending. Your call on that one. Easter Playboy Bunny Nurse could wear tight satin with faux fur. That worked once, didn't it? Isn't there a new television show coming up which reincarnates this archetype? Valentine's Day Nurse with red white and pink.
"Furry" costumes. I mean, not everyone has the time and skill to fashion their own by themselves.
"Wouldn't faux feathers and boas be a lot easier?" asked my spouse.
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