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THE BOG OF ETERNAL STENCH

Our teenager watched a 1980s video in the home of a friend. She could barely get the words out telling me about it, she was laughing so hard because it was sooooo bad. The movie was Labyrinth starring David Bowie as the singing Goblin King.

At some point, the good guys fell off a cliff and came to a big, oozy swamp. They had to cross it, but if you touched the water, you would smell forever.

The name of this place: “The Bog of Eternal Stench.”

Luckily, one of the good guys could “call up” rocks from out of the stinky bog as a makeshift bridge. He sounded like Chewbacca on steroids as he vocalized his extremely weird “call” -- “Mmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!”

Every time someone’s foot touched a rock, it made a rude noise. You know – the noise that tends to accompany a bad smell. When a dog ran across, there were lots of these rude noises.

Yes, they watched that part six times, laughing hysterically.

I asked her: exactly what does “The Bog of Eternal Stench” remind her of?

She smiled. “My bathroom?”

Mmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!