something stinks

So, though I can't smell shit (even though I am part dog), apparently the city smells. Like shit. Or, maybe Mercaptan. Anyway, there is massive speculation as to why the city is permeating an odour of natural gas, and I have selected my favourite suggestions:

It could just be the scent of the Giants and Jets returning home.
— Posted by Tom

Wasn’t it Walt Whitman who wrote, “O Captain, Mercaptan”?

— Posted by bg

October 28th, 2005 there was a sweet smell permeating the city. It smelled like maple syrup. There was never a cause found there. Could the two city wide smells somehow be related? No news agency has mentioned any reference of this yet.
— Posted by Larry

I bet a big landfill had a bunch of gas develop in a pocket over time and it was finally released. In other words, New Jersey farted.
— Posted by Chad

Maybe too many New Yorkers exhaled simultaneously, and all that bad breath blew back in their faces at once. I live in Portland, Oregon. Nobody here has bad breath.
— Posted by J E

It started in NY and not in Jersey as some New Yorkers would want you to believe!
— Posted by Passion

Is Bush or Cheney in town?
— Posted by Morty

If Christy Whitman would just issue a statement,then I would be reassured
— Posted by rob

Anyway, one repeated assertion is that though we don't know what the smell is, we know it isn't dangerous. That's like a vegetarian saying something tastes like chicken. Let's be frank to those who deserve it, especially those of us that live within the blast radius.

Sigh. I wish I was in Philly.

Go Eagles!

Welcome to retirement, Tiki... we've got a used car dealership just waiting for your endorsement. Oh wait, they want David Akers. Sorry.

this piece is a bitch du jour. Go Eagles!