Well I have received my second silly question. It’s funny and also impossible to answer.
Name: Grace Nomel
Ask your silly question: Someone I know very recently tried a new coconut health drink for the first time.
On opening the carton of drink and smelling its contents, as you do, she exclaimed,
“That smells hairy”Staying out of the gutter, I wonder,
Could you help me out with a description of the smell of “hairy” please?
Thank you for your question Grace.
It is definitely a prize winning question but,unfortunately, I haven’t started any prizes yet.
At first glance, this sounds like Synesthesia when one sense can trigger a response from another sense.
Sometimes if someone says a number they experience a taste.
Or even numbers can take on a flavor like chocolate, if it’s an odd number or strawberries for even numbers.
However your friend is making a strange association,it may not be synesthesia.
It could be an over familiarity with hairy coconuts, But :
Scary Hairy
I think I can reverse engineer this one.
She’s drinking coconut – smells hairy.
She has to drink some hair to see if it smells like coconut.
Try this first before reading further.
If the hair doesn’t smell of coconut I can only conclude that the Coconut health drink that smells ‘hairy’ must be dangerous.
Meaning that the health drink is as dangerous to riding a unicycle on a cliff edge – which could perhaps be conceptual Synesthesia.
Where a person relates the experience of the senses to different unrelated concepts.
The color blue may be ‘falling off a ladder’ for example
or Purple may be overturning in a kayak.
Very hairy.
It is much more likely that the coconut health drink reminded her of coconut shampoo.
I do hope you persuaded her to try my suggestion first. There was no reason whatsoever for doing it.
I also hope my answer passed your silly criteria.
Tim Willow Why this blonkers blog?
Previous Silly question #1 – which was actually quite a sensible question.
Why not ask your own silly question?
You may also have noticed that there is no reason for a hippopotamus crossing sign.
I’m not sure there’s ever a need for a hippopotamus crossing sign, but it’s lovely just the same.
As for the hairy coconut, perhaps she misspoke and it actually smelled like Harry. Either way, it can’t be good.
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well Harry loves his coconuts, makes sense. There’s a post appearing about Harry tomorrow strangely enough. and there it is https://rebelfish.blog/2018/09/05/is-harry-better-than-jesus-in-terms-of-brevity/
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Seventeen.
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I thought the hippopotamus was a rat until I read your final comment
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For you I believe it would be a flesh eating zombie rat
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…crossing the road to get to the hairy coconut.
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Can’t beat that one!
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Defo the rat!
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The coconut health drinking person said no to the hair drinking experiment.
Couldn’t even convince them to lick a u bend quickly.
One of life’s mysteries I guess.
(Although it’s starting to bug me now)
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I see what you mean – at least when something smells fishy, one has a very definite idea about what ‘fishy’ might smell like. I suppose it depends on what shampoo one is using – perhaps it is Timotei?
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Exactly 🙂
If a thing ‘smells like feet’ or a pig’s arse, an understanding is quite simple.
Coconuts are hairy, as are forearms, caterpillars and mouldy oranges.
I’m starting to believe the answer will be found in classifying the type of hair.
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Coconut milk does smell hairy! What does a hippo smell like? 😉
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I haven’t managed to get near enough… perhaps a soupcon of mud with a hint of aggression
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Maybe they make great house pets! LOVE to have their ears scratched!! How would you know?
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