LAND OF EXCITMENT
Swiss flock to watch giant stinking flower bloom
(Thanks to Jenny Kellner)
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April 23, 2011
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I've never understood the fascination with these flowers. If I were in Switzerland I would rather sit and eat chocolate than watch a stinky flower bloom.
Posted by: nursecindy | April 23, 2011 at 05:47 PM
Swiss watches stink. Not what I'd heard.
Posted by: Loudmouth | April 23, 2011 at 05:57 PM
land of what? excitment? is that like excitement? sorry mr language person.
Posted by: queensbee | April 23, 2011 at 06:19 PM
I'm with nursecindy.... of course, here in the good ol' USA I'd have to eat a Reese's egg right about now.
Posted by: Coconuts | April 23, 2011 at 07:03 PM
CSU Fullerton had one of these bloom a few years ago. Mrs. Pirateboy still has the "stinking T-Shirt" we picked up at the gift shop.
Posted by: PirateBoy | April 23, 2011 at 08:43 PM
We have one at Virginia Tech. Bloomed in 2002 and 2004. Don't know what Nurse Cindy has against a 4' penis shaped plant.
Posted by: Bob_R | April 23, 2011 at 09:57 PM
There was a scene something like that in Tim Dorsey's latest book.
Life truly does imitate art sometimes.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | April 24, 2011 at 08:18 AM
snork@loudmouth!
The corspus penus or whatever it is...is NOT the only stinking flower to bloom once every 2 or 4 years.
There's a type of bamboo plant that stinks when its flowers bloom also.
Strange fascination though. We watch stinkin TV and the Swiss watch stinking flowers.
Their "hobby" probably does less harm. Which Is why
Thomas J. Edison purported said, "If it stinks, they will follow."
Posted by: funny man | April 24, 2011 at 11:17 AM