Yeah, it’s all hilarious until someone loses an eye…

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I realize I’m going to feel pretty damn stupid if it turns out to be something bad, but some of the comments in the NYT’s ‘the Lede’ blog regarding the bad smell in NYC and parts of New Jersey are lots o’ fun:

Wasn’t it Walt Whitman who wrote, “O Captain, Mercaptan”?
– Posted by bg

It could just be the scent of the Giants and Jets returning home.
– Posted by Tom

Perhaps it’s General Tarkin’s foul stench.
– Posted by JR

Read this headline again and tell me that it wasn’t already run in the Onion.Mayor Says Odor Doesn’t Appear Dangerous: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that the source of the smell was unknown, but officials were “very confident” it was not dangerous.
– Posted by Dan Lowndes
And one that harkens back to an earlier question on air quality:

If Christy Whitman would just issue a statement,then I would be reassured
– Posted by rob
Later – I found a post I wanted to link in but couldn’t locate when I was initially tossing this out – Chaos Theory – an interesting piece on the homogenization of NYC. If you are in the mood for an ‘only (I hope) in New York’ story, click through to This American Life – The Super Episode, Act One. Funny and creepy. Act Three – involving a snowman – is just a riot.