This Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test
According to this odd story, a smoking ban in British pubs has managed to make British bars smell even worse. Apparently, the acrid smell of smoke is a delight compared to all the foul odors smoke used to mask: “stale food and beer, damp, sweat and body odour, drains and - how do you put this nicely - flatulence.”
So what’s the solution? You might think cleaning supplies would be in order. But you would be wrong. Instead, they’re pumping perfume into 2000 pubs — the essence of “leather, freshly cut grass, and ocean breeze fragrances.”
This cries out for a limerick, don’t you think?
This Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The stench of Brit pubs once was hidden
By smoke, but now smoking’s forbidden,
And since folks can’t abide
The foul odor, they hide
It with pumped-in-perfume. I’m not kiddin’.
(You can find more of my food and drink limericks and humor here.)
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August 9th, 2007 at 9:33 am
The Carnival of Satire (#80)…
From the Beijing Olympics, to Russian interference at the North Pole, this Carnival of Satire has an international flavor, and speaking of flavor, we begin with a hilarious review of The Food Network from Riding with Rickey.
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August 9th, 2007 at 9:51 am
[…] And finally, Madeleine Begun Kane has another humorous limerick, this time about British pubs: This Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test. […]
August 14th, 2007 at 4:22 am
LMAO…. this is really disturbing. And I used to hate coming home from a pub with my hair smelling like smoke… ugh.
Love the limmerick.
Pass the pine-sol!
August 16th, 2007 at 3:58 am
[…] When visiting MAD KANE recently, I read this article about how Brits smell WORSE when they aren’t smoking. Seriously. She wrote a limerick about it that shouldn’t be missed. […]
August 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
That is a seriously fab limerick about a disgusting problem. Freshly cut grass - how utterly funny!
August 17th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Thanks, everyone!
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I read that they were actually spraying smoke smell spray so the pub visitors would feel more at home!
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 am
LOL! SingForHim. That wouldn’t surprise me!
November 7th, 2007 at 7:02 am
[…] Madeleine Begun Kane presents This Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog, gives us humor in British Pub style. […]