Old Spice made a man of my son

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]

Clever re-branding move...

Old Spice had become pretty much associated with stodgy older guys....

A pretty limited demographic for the long term...

[Scooter]

Have they replaced its stodgy old guy scent? Because no clever marketing campaign in the world is going to make that stench attractive to the young and hip.

[Daisy]

The generation that uses Lynx (Axe) Africa obviously have no sense of smell Old Spice should be no problem to them

[oldr_n_wsr]

I lost my sense of smell Oct 31, 1980

[Long Run]

That begs a por que, Oldr.

[Long Run]

And that ad is cringe worthy, if memorable.

[oldr_n_wsr]

That begs a por que, Oldr.

I've told this story before but in case people have missed it or it was on a different forum or we are all forgetful, here it is.

I hosted a holloween party where there was plenty of booze and some drugs. I drank heavily, smoked a good amount of pot, snorted some coke (just to be able to keep going) and had a couple of microdots of mescalline. Party was winding down and my girlfriend (now my wife) was leaving and I told her she was too drunk/high to drive home that I would drive her home. So she, her girlfriend and I get into her car and I drive to her house. I leave and start walkign home. (we only lived about 5 blocks from each other). As I'm walking a car pulls up and it's them. They tell me to get in that they were going to drive me home. I tell them I'm not getting in the car, to go back home that I woudl be fine. I'm now about 4 blocks from home. My girlfriends friends says, "jump on the car" and of course I do that rather than get in the car. So they drive a block and I'm sitting on the trunk facing backwards and I know there is a stop sign coming up and what a trick it would be if I jumped off when they stop and they will think I fell off. So I feel the car slowing down to stop and just as I think the car is going to stop I push myself off the trunk. Only problem is they don't stop, they pull away (rather fast if I remember correctly). So I am now falling down backwards and slam the back of my head onto the street.
Don't know how long I was out, but their car was nowhere in sight. I get up and stumble home and go to bed and pass out.

Get up in the morning feeling like crap. Can't lay down as the head spins and I barf. Can't get up as my head ahces so bad it feels like it will explode. on a sidenote, I never got hangovers or at least not really bad hangovers no matter what I drank or consumed so this was wierd
The symptoms lasted the whole day and my mom figured something was wrong (I had forgotten about the car incident which was another oddity as I was not a black out drinker either) and took me to the ER. over the course of the next few days I started remembering the whole episode

Ended up I had a fractured skull and the obvious concussion and blood in the ear canal. The doc called all his interns in so they could get a look at a fractured skull xray and victim and they all asked me a whole bunch of questions about my symptoms and pain and such. What a lesson I was. Then the doc asked if I could smell and he put some things up to my nose and asked me what they were (he had me close my eyes). I could not smell the odors. He explained that when I hit my head, the brain sloshed back and forth and severed the nerves that run to/through the nasal cavity. Thus the loss of smell.

The diagnosis was confirmed by more than one neurologist. They told me that many people in car accidents and whiplash victims have similar results. IIRC about 1% of the population suffers form this affliction.

I miss the smell of potroast cooking and my wifes perfume the most. I do have dreams where I have regained the sense of smell.

[Gob]

I hosted a holloween party where there was plenty of booze and some drugs. I drank heavily, smoked a good amount of pot, snorted some coke (just to be able to keep going) and had a couple of microdots of mescalline.

Respect dude!

[oldr_n_wsr]

I hosted a holloween party where there was plenty of booze and some drugs. I drank heavily, smoked a good amount of pot, snorted some coke (just to be able to keep going) and had a couple of microdots of mescalline.

Respect dude!

Heck, I was 22yo and invincible.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.