With all the talk of smells and smelly stuff going on in Santa Clarita, it's time for a humor break!

Snope.com provides us with many valuable history lessons on the origins of some of our favorite words.

With all the smelly stuff going on in the Santa Clarita Valley recently, from politics to improperly treated sewage to landfill odors, I figured it was time to inject a little humor into all of this.

Click here for the origins of the word that describes all of these things in the most poetic manner.

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