Caramel or dead bodies?

Thu Apr 21, 6:33 AM ET

A woman looks at a titan arum lily at the Royal Botanical Garden's hothouse, in west London, on Thursday April 21, 2005. The lily (Amorphophallus titanium), of which there has only been six in the UK, originates from Sumatra, and stands at 2.11 meters high (6.9 ft), with its corm weighing 77Kg. The plant flowers for only two days before collapsing. The blood-red flower is renowned for its hideous smell, which is said to be a cross between burnt sugar and rotting flesh. (AP Photo / Chris Young, PA)
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If you really want to see the picture, click on the link (if it's still there). It's just a big flower. What caught me off-guard with this story/picture, was not the enormous flower, but that it smells like a "cross between burnt sugar and rotting flesh." Those really aren't two things that I ever would have lumped together.

Enter two police officers:
A:"Do you smell that? What is that?"
B:"No, I don't smell...WAIT! I do!"
A:"Is it, is it...waffles?"
B:"No, no, it's cotton candy..."
A:"Oh, damn. It's just some rotting flesh. Tricked again!"
B:"That rotting flesh is so crafty! It gets us every time!"
Exuent. Holding hands and chuckling together.