Posted on 03/04/2012 7:05:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK) -- There’s new hope for people with Trimethylaminuria, a rare disorder that causes its sufferers to smell like dead fish.
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia recently won a $36,000 grant to study the genes behind the disorder—work scientists believe could lead to new developments in helping control the symptoms of Trimethylaminuria, also known as TMAU.
ABC News introduced TV viewers to a TMAU sufferer in 2006: Former model and teacher Camille said TMAU endangered her career.
“I was so focused on ‘Do I smell? Do I smell? Are they saying things? Are they whispering? Are they laughing about me?’” she said at the time. Camille asked ABC News not to publish her last name.
Camille said recently that she was doing well. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned since being diagnosed with TMAU, it’s that, with accurate information and proper perspective, TMAU is manageable. Thank you, ABC, for being part of that equation,” she said in a written statement.
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That`s the end of my Musky Lunge.
I knew a girl who smelled like crabs coz she had`em.
I had a girlfriend once...........never mind.
I wouldn’t touch this with a 3-foot long pike.
They don`t do it on porpoise.
>> A New Fragrance
Essence of Low Tide.
Parfum de Puget Sound
“Many people come to me and they say, “Hey, how can you be such a swinging, sex god?” Well I tell you. It’s not because I can make love up to one time a night.
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It’s not because I say the things a woman wants to hear like, “Are you through yet?”
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It’s because I know how to read a woman.
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If she is like a cat, I bring kitty litter. If she is like a dog, we do it on the paper.
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But I’m also a unique guy too. The kind of guy who likes to have his own special scent. Not to smell like every other guy. I like to have my own, individual odor.
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That’s why I wear tuna fish sandwich. I put a tuna fish sandwich under each arm. maybe one or two behind the ears.
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I don’t smell like any other guy. And it’s economical too because the smell lasts four or five days.”
-Steve Martin
Hmmm, As I passed the Fulton Fish Market this morning I closed my eyes and wished Sandra Fluke a fine a glorious day.
Sooner or later every guy jumps the shark.
Did this come from the Sturgeon General?
I don’t know why they think this is so rare. All women have a certain area that smells like canned tuna. I like women but hate canned tuna.
She smelled like flying fish.
I once knew a girl who smelled like a turtle.
She liked to make love really really really really really slow.
#SandraFluke (her testimony was fishy)
Well, you might have been if in that last roe you two were in, she hadn't conched you with a rolling pinfish and left you to fry.
I thought the cure for it was a squirt of lemon and a dash of Old Bay?
“All women have a certain area that smells like canned tuna.”
In the kitchen, where they feed the cat? I’m just asking for the halibut ...
I thought it was just..a Fluke...
Just a Flook.
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