Purdue students sniff manure for $30 per session

[sasquatch]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_sc/sniffing_stenches
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs — by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.

"Typically they're farm smells — manure, farm waste, hay. The only thing that is good is that we are not smelling it for a long time. It's just a sniff," said civil engineering graduate student Anuj Sharma.

The students' work provides Heber with data for his ongoing research on ways to improve methods for estimating a given livestock farming operation's odor emissions.

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[EstimatedProphet]

1. Note that Purdue doesn't have a rocket science program.

[sasquatch]

2. But they produce a lot of astronauts

:shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

3. What's an astronaught?

[sasquatch]

4. A misspelling

;)

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Ah

And here I was expecting some sort of pun, like you were waiting for me to say "What's an astronaught?" and you'd come back with "A loser spaceman" or something.

[Orsino]

6. If they can identify the various smells...

...then the College Republicans won't accept them.

[Enrique]

7. don't they have a bullshit detector?

[PVnRT]

8. Good ol' Farm U.

Yeah, that sounds like Purdue, alright.

Other schools who know things like "chemistry" might be trying to analyze the components of the order and figuring out ways to measure that. Purdue students just shove their face in shit.

[sasquatch]

9. I had an uncle that went to Purdue for a while

I think I might realy this to him.

[cloudbase]

10. Confirming what the folks

at Rose Hulman have known for a long time.

[LiberalEsto]

11. Here's an amusing little vintage

with a fruity nose and echoes of sun-ripened slop....

[rug]

12. No sex threads.