Word: fecal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change in policy has given farmers powerful new incentives to use age- old Chinese agricultural techniques. For a thousand years longer than in Western Europe, the Chinese have fertilized their fields. They now use everything from animal waste and human fecal matter to butchery leavings and pond mud. The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer. Shunning all manner of wastefulness, they feed livestock not valuable grain but materials of little other value. Algae and other aquatic plants, for example, have become a major source of both fertilizer and feed...
...Harbor Township, N.J., a large fecal deposit closes down a stretch of water for several days...
Words, words, words. A new store selling packaged bullshit. Can't tell a book by its cover; can't tell a word by its letter, and what is anti-bullshit when all there is is bullshit (and particularly noxious fecal matter at that) and when placed in the great libretto that is the music of life, continues to sound long after the last Existential note is played out, long after the Fat Lady got water on the lung (Rho row roe your boat!) from holding the final C for so long while I tried to come up with something...
...problem is the matter of matter--fecal matter to be precise. The recent warm weather (anything would be warm compared to the arctic temps we had in early February) has caused much of the frozen tundra across the quad to melt. Melting snow obviously produces mud. But it uncovers something else, which is much harder to scrape off your shoes, and smells absolutely awful, whether you walk...
...problem is the matter of matter--fecal matter to be precise. The recent warm weather (anything would be warm compared to the arctic temps we had in early February) has caused much of the frozen tundra across the quad to melt. Melting snow obviously produces mud. But it uncovers something else, which is much harder to scrape off your shoes, and smells absolutely awful, whether you walk...