22 April 2009

The smell of Emily - tales from the city

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[First filed: April 22, 2009 @ 10:03]

I came across this yesterday while walking past Allawa Court, the really sketchy flats to the north of Civic.

I’ve never walked that way before so I have no idea how long it’s been there. I just thought it was desperately sweet.

If you’re having trouble seeing it, it reads:

    “Feni loves with his black doggin heart
    The Smell of Emily”

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I wouldn’t know, Fisho, since I’ve never personally sniffed a chair. I tend to inhale the scent of a person as I lean in to kiss them, and that can be the sweet scent of an infant or child or the special scent of a partner. If a man smells wrong, I can’t kiss him. Simple as that.

Granny said :

Fisho said :

Then why is chair-sniffing frowned upon?

I’m sure nobody cares what you do behind closed doors, Fisho ….

If it was done behind closed doors there would no-one around to frown.

Emily: Finger lickin’ good?

Fisho said :

Then why is chair-sniffing frowned upon?

I’m sure nobody cares what you do behind closed doors, Fisho ….

Clown Killer10:27 pm 22 Apr 09

For those not in the know, kids call a ‘dog’ a ‘dobber’.

Isn’t ‘dogging’ also a descriptor for people who like to watch others having sex in a public place?

Mr Evil said :

Gee, when I was younger, if you really felt that way about someone you’d send them a card or a letter to tell them how much they meant to you – now it seems you just scrawl this crap all over public and private property instead.

Ah Mr Evil. I’m sure in your day, families of 150 used to live in shoeboxes in the middle of the road and children had to satnd in cow pats on thier way to school to stop their feet from freezing.

I think its beautiful.

…the Emily sentiment…….not the shoebox thing…

“Black doggin’ heart”

Methinks that the locale and writing would indicate a person who has ‘dogged’ on their mates, which is not an uncommon occurrence in those parts.

For those not in the know, kids call a ‘dog’ a ‘dobber’.

Granny said :

The smell of somebody is really important. Whether baby or child or lover, the pheromones are a unique and pleasurable sensory experience.

Then why is chair-sniffing frowned upon?

A Rose for Emily by any other would smell as sweet and a lot sweeter than the rotting body of Homer.

Are we sure this is not one of the Chiefly One’s famed public artworks? It probably cost $300000.

You should all be grateful our lives are being enriched this way.

I actually really like it.

A shoe-in for the ACT Poetry Award I say.

I think I speak for all Riotacters when I say: Dogging rulez!

The smell of somebody is really important. Whether baby or child or lover, the pheromones are a unique and pleasurable sensory experience.

Sniff.

Emily tries but misunderstands
She’s often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams till tomorrow

Ah Syd.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy2:39 pm 22 Apr 09

I knew a guy who, years ago, made a sign which he attached to the top of the old person and kids crossing sign by the side of a major road.

It said “HUNTING SEASON OPEN”.

This is why you need to carry around a permanent marker at all times.

At the Canberra Hospital there is a multi level car park and up the top there is a ‘no pedestrian access’ sign which has a figure of a pedestrian but someone has removed the head off the figure. I’d love to write “No headless zombies” on it.

Muttsybignuts1:14 pm 22 Apr 09

I like it. It is a bit of scribble on a fence. Nothing more, nothing less.

Pommy bastard12:38 pm 22 Apr 09

Danman said :

PB – In my opinion, they are equally illegal and ugly regardless of their legibility.

You didn’t ask if it would be as legal or ugly, but if “as sweet”. I totaly agree with you that it is as illegal and ugly.

“His black, dogging heart”, or his “black dogging heart”?

Thumper +1. “The smell of” is in lower case, while everything else is in uppercase.

If it was Feni that wrote it all, it’s the equivalent of yelling “FENI LOVES WITH HIS BLACK DOGGIN HEART the smell of EMILY”

I think he’s sort of embarassed about loving the somewhat funky smell of Emily, but still wants to tell the world. He’s got it bad!

I’m a tax payer and I think it’s sweet, it’s better then some of the crap you see out there.

Skidbladnir said :

Grararar. My taxes paid for that public space.

(Somebody had to do it)

I think we should each be able to claim a bit of public space in this manner, as ‘the bit MY taxes paid for’. Unless Fini is a tourist, s/he probably paid for it…

I’m not sure about sweet, but it is poetic. Better than Dorothea McKellar, anyway.

PB – In my opinion, they are equally illegal and ugly regardless of their legibility.

Pommy bastard11:30 am 22 Apr 09

Danman said :

If it was a tag, which is equally as illegal, would it still be sweet ?

No, due to “tags” being illegible squiggles, the literary equivalent of a dog peeing on a lamppost.

Give Emily some of my famous boiled egg and sprout vindaloo, then see how much he loves the smell of her…

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy11:26 am 22 Apr 09

The smell of Emily doing what, exactly?

Well I think the smell of Emily makes my doggin’ stomach invert.

Grararar. My taxes paid for that public space.

(Somebody had to do it)

If it was a tag, which is equally as illegal, would it still be sweet ?

Mr Evil said :

Gee, when I was younger, if you really felt that way about someone you’d send them a card or a letter to tell them how much they meant to you – now it seems you just scrawl this crap all over public and private property instead.

What’s a letter?
and i’m betting in your day, no-one had a “Black Doggin Heart” either.

The Smell of Emily, a new type of perfume?

Gee, when I was younger, if you really felt that way about someone you’d send them a card or a letter to tell them how much they meant to you – now it seems you just scrawl this crap all over public and private property instead.

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