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Re:The War on Dogs by lostlogin on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:02AM (#36257948)
> what's truly wild is the number of stray cats, especially in the suburbs!

The smell of a cat colony has to be smelt to be believed. It’s up there with the worst smells I’ve experienced.

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Re:The War on Dogs by jjtheblunt on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:27PM (#36261065)
That's an interesting triple entendre sentence build around "smelt", which is a past tense (archaic maybe?) of smell, often written smelled, and a smelt is a little silver fish, so quite stinky, and smelt is liquid metal.

That's a rare sentence that pretty much works all three ways.

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Re:The War on Dogs by lostlogin on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:44PM (#36263121)
Yikes. It was 3am and I was sleepless. Smelt rather than smelled… poor.
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