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DCist readers had plenty of opinions about the unusually bad ginkgo season that Washington experienced last year. As the fragrant fruits fell on sidewalks and streets last autumn, ending up crushed by passersby, that familiar vomit/jizz/poop stench combo emanated from all corners of the city. But the Georgetown Metropolitan observes that at least so far, it looks like the city's efforts to curb the female trees from producing fruit may have paid off this time around.
This time last year we we’re under a deluge of foul smelling berries. The city had switched to a new concoction to stem the growth of the ginkgo berries. It was a total disaster. We had berries straight through the spring.
This year, however, the city went back to the tried but true spraying method. While he may live to regret it, GM believes that we have gotten through the worst of the ginkgo season without nearly the onslaught we saw last year.
Could it be true? Maybe. DCist seems to recall the worst of the fruit not falling until well into November in 2008. But still, we have to agree that we haven't seen nearly as many fruits even waiting to descend on the usual sidewalks. Have you noticed anything different?
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I wish I had a dollar for every time my vomit smelled like jizz/poop.
Okay I get it. This is a blog. So it fills its content needs by picking up the odds and ends of news that WaPo or other news sources miss, but reading this made me react like this: What the hell? Don't they have better things to worry about over there? The (possibly) bad smell of a nothing ever goes wrong place like Georgetown? puh-lease!
hey, fafou, it's a free country. if you don't want to read about inane stuff, turn off your computer and go pick up war and peace. otherwise, i don't get why you even commented to let us know that you think this is inane. it's like a never-ending spiral of pointlessness.
Come on, man. I know you are in love with Sommer, but if someone thinks certain posts are inane (i don't in this case) then it is fine for them to call it out in the comments. DCist is not a hobby, its a business. I am sure Sommer looks at such feedback to try develop content that is going to be interesting.
wow, news to me. thanks for telling me whom i'm in love with and whom i'm not. my girlfriend will be intrigued...
Oh be honest. I've seen your posts. You are crushing.
To IMGoph's girlfriend: I was only kidding. He loves no one but you.
did you send me an email? i think i saw something in the spam folder right before i cleared it out, but it's lost in the ether now...
if so, could you resend?
Just a little FYI ginkgo trees can be found all over the city not just in Georgetown so chill.
I disagree with your assessment of ginko inanity. In fact, I'll take a double-helping of staggering, lecherous homeless on my ambulatory jaunts over a full-on ginko stink invasion. I applaud the DC government's chemical abortion campaign against the children of this awful tree.
Wrong side of the bed?
New to the internet, fafou?
If you're talking about the smell on 18th Street in Adams Morgan, it's not from trees. It's vomit/jizz/poop.
and bravo, still, to dcist for being the only media outlet in town with the guts to compare ginko smell to jizz.
tip o' the hat to ya there, sommer.
Man, I'm surprised Monkey hasn't pounced on this post yet. This kind of topic usually draws him here like flies to vomit/jizz/poop.
Up in Manor Park, it's a toss-up. Of the 10 trees on our block, only two of them are dropping berries. But the berries being dropped are just as stinky and proliferate as ever. Walking to the bus stop in the morning is a delicate ballet around the squished vomit/jizz/poop lest it become lodged in the treads of one's shoes.
P.S. to fafou: Manor Park is not Georgetown.
heleneotroy:are you sure? i thought that DC-area realtors had annexed everything into just one or two neighborhoods. maybe you're actually in north-north-north-east georgetown... :P
Goshdurnit, you're right, IMGoph. Every weekend we have to hunker in the bomb shelter as the realtors from Georgetown and the realtors from Takoma Park duke it out over who owns our territory. It's like West Side Story, only everyone is wearing power suits.
Yeah I live in Adams Mo' We have tons of ginko trees but I thought I really was smelling jizz/poop/vomit. It's much better this fall
What I can't believe is that someone here hasn't come up with a colorful name for the combined VJP smell. I mean, if Dan Savage can come up with "Santorum", what the hell is going on with the Commentariat here?
Yes, you should now Google "Santorum".
somehow we should be able to tie "harry jackson" to that smell, right?
Can't we just refer to the good "bishop" as Harry "Ginko" Jackson?