Fremont, Asparagus

[dancingmaggot]

It’s been a very long time, but at last that idea I called a plan really is turning out to be something. I’ve got my tickets ready. At the end of November I leave California indefinitely. After my stop on the east coast, I plan to travel to Italy where Lana is, and from there, eh, who knows? I don’t have a ticket back, and I won’t be buying it

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[ey]

the asparagus thing is a genetic thing. it doesn't affect some ppl's pee at all, whereas if i just take one little bite of asparagus my pee smells really strongly of the weird smell.

congratualations on getting the hell out of your job & out of the country! i am obviously a big fan of such moves, haha.

[veryschway]

Actually, apparently the asparagus thing affects everyone's pee, but some people are unable to detect the smell of the particular metabolites asparagus leaves in the pee:

In fact the fabulously funny book, The ReSearch Guide to Body Fluids (by Paul Spinrad, Juno Books, N.Y., 1994), says just 22 percent of survey respondents experience asparagus pee.

Early investigators thought genetics had divided the world into stinkers and nonstinkers. That was until 1980, when three researchers had the presence of mind to wave pee from the nonstinkers under the noses of the stinkers.

Lo and behold, the problem proved to be one not of producing the stinky pee but of being able to sniff it out.

from: http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon970115/skinny1.html

I love the internet.

[veryschway]

From The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,1576765,00.html