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I wouldn't say anything, I'd just sniff smelling salts and go back out there."
And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the "burn and sniff" technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.
And it's using a device like this that I recently discovered that a known coral pathogen actually has the ability to sniff around the seawater and hunt for corals.
I subscribe to New Scientist, and recently they had an article about how the U.S. Army was training bumblebees to sniff out explosives.
So I said to a nurse, 'Did you know that the U.S. Army is training bumblebees to sniff out explosives?' When I read my medical notes, I saw they'd written: 'Believes bees can sniff out explosives.'" (Laughter) He said, "You know, they're always looking out for nonverbal clues to my mental state.
We as a human species can sniff out in a moment, literally in a moment, whether or not someone is being their authentic true self.
Instead, males used their fantastic antennae to sniff out perfumes given off by their females.
It's really hard, but in essence, nerves from the brain go up into the nose and on these nerves exposed in the nose to the outside air are receptors, and odor molecules coming in on a sniff interact with these receptors, and if they bond, they send the nerve a signal which goes back into the brain.
We can sniff gas, we can measure dust particles, the shape of them, the composition, there are magnetometers, everything.
After talking to a scientist, we thought, maybe the perfect concoction of Ani is like 10 percent collarbone, 30 percent underarm, 40 percent bikini line and so forth, and occasionally I let researchers from other labs take a sniff of my samples.
As I said, if he's in the park and there's a rear end to sniff, why come to the owner?
The dog can sniff your butt, if you like, when he wants to.
Get your nose into the armpit, have a good old sniff.
Now, I'd like to imagine that you could, I don't know, put a harness on a little mosquito and, you know, put it on a lead and take it out and see if we can sniff people in a community - that goes on in my head - and see whether we could actually find people with malaria.
And most of you will be familiar with this concept at airports, where dogs will go down a line and sniff out your luggage or yourself for drugs and explosives or even food as well.
So just as you'd see an airport, imagine these were people, and the dog is going to go down and have a good sniff.
Lean in, get your nose right into their armpit, come on, stop being so British about it, get your nose into the armpit, have a good old sniff, see what you can smell.
And most of you people will be familiar with this concept at airports, where dogs will go down a line and sniff out your luggage or yourself for drugs and explosives or even food as well.
So just as you would see an airport, imagine these were people, and the dog is going to go down and have a good sniff.
Arnies interpretation of a depressed cop is to bow his head and sniff.
This movie is a rather odd mix of musical, romance, drama and crime with a sniff of film-noir to it.
Two maids (a young one who takes her clothes off a lot and an old one who spies on everyone), plus Udo (Luis Induni), a bald voyeuristic handyman who spies on Leila changing clothes, takes nude pictures of her and sneaks into the pool house to take a sniff of her freshly used bathing suit.
I dare say the movie is a piece of trash that doesn't do the series even a sniff of justice.
Soon, the film follows a journalist, Cléo Dupont(the delicious, luscious Anita Strindberg)as she and Peter meet for a dinner where she could try and sniff out anything that might break a story for her.
Breaking into houses to sniff underwear, feeding on a stranger's breast milk on a public bus, and fornicating in a cab at the request of one of their female subjects were just a few of the whacked escapades these guys were pulling off.
To say she fit the role perfectly, with her sniff of suspicion & acerbic way with dialogue, is a great understatement.
Although the self-absorbed undergraduates with their pseudo-intellectual babble will sniff about how "the masses" won't be able to "connect" or "appreciate" this movie, the reasonably intelligent movie-renter will recognize this film for what it is: a piece of crap.
sniff, sniff...what's that you smell?
Good acting from the two leads and two lovely moments: the soldier asking permission to lay his head on the country boy's lap, and a show of affection with a long sniff kiss to the hand of the boy, followed by the boy lick kissing the hand of the soldier, followed by an incongruous moment with the boy going off into darkness and the solder riding a moped along a street with a smile on his face.
Though the cast list for TG is certainly nothing to sniff at either!