why do used enema applicators smell?

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sometimes, while i am walking around the house, i stumble upon a used enema applicator that a relative of mine carelessly tossed aside.

having never seen an enema applicator before, i became immediately engrossed in cat-like (see "cat_rape(2)" in your local man pages) curiosity. i quickly inserted the brown-stained tip into my left nostril, and to my surprise, it smelled like... like... feces!

i had never in my most timid (as opposed to "wildest") dreams thought that my own inserted such vile things into supposedly virgin anus.

but this still does not explain (1) why the applicator itself smells, nor (2) what business that applicator had in crawling up their ass, or (3) why secret government MIB people put these sinister "enemals" (a term i came up with; a conjecture of "enema" and "animal") into our home.

there are possible explanations, which i will #include below, however i am not as wise as the great william:

1) the applicator keeps itself alive by eating feces it does not own, especially when the feces is in its natural host.

2) it didn't; it came up there to eat.

3) the government has aliens pick up , and is sick of their shit.

-- Max Harris (adm@sal.mhasd.k12.wi.us), November 30, 1998

Answers

You are a poor misguided fool.

First of all, enema applicators are inanimate objects without an olfactory system. Therefore, they do not smell.

Yes, perhaps it did "smell like feces". Fecal matter also lacks an olfactory system; it doesn't smell either.

Since the enema applicator, if not washed, is probably coated in feces, you may have actually been sniffing dung.

Enemas are generally administered to aid with bowel movements. Warm water is gently forced into the rectum and bowel, dislodging the prior contents (feces) from their resting state. As the water the flows out of the rectum, the feces follows. This can ease discomfort of extreme constipation.

As for your three questions:

1) the applicator doesn't smell. the fecal bits clinging to the applicator emit an odor, confusing your little mind.

2) the applicator is inanimate and insentient; someone put it up there.

3) They're available at the local pharmacy. The government has little to do with enemas, other than perhaps the FDA saying that the liquid in the enema bottles they sell is non-toxic and non-irritatant to most people's intestinal flesh.

-- William (spqrspqr@hotmail.com), November 30, 1998.


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