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...time Wash U. had upped the score to 11-1 (according to playground rules, this would be considered a "skunk"), Harvard got into its groove and cleared up some of its communication problems...

Author: By Patty W. Seo, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bears Devour Spikers In Three Quick Games | 9/25/1992 | See Source »

...someone has 14 earrings in their ears and their nose -- and who knows where else -- and spiky green hair and smells like a skunk, I don't know why I have to hire them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Jun. 8, 1992 | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...patent office ruled that a smell, like a name or symbol, can be trademarked, which came as a relief to the makers of a scented embroidery kit in the shape of a skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And While You Were Gone . . . | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...Austen's estate, even at this minute [laughter]. There really is no strict definition of what is going too far with parody. Parody is generally okay, but characters are trade marked, they're not copyrighted. And we actually had Bambi with bullets around her neck and we took the skunk and made it into a cigar-chomping sergeant, and that's stuff we probably couldn't have done. It would have been interesting to test the case, but not with our own money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk About Sequels | 2/8/1991 | See Source »

Stealing that pretty little evergreen from a neighbor's backyard and setting it up as a Christmas tree in your living room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: Eau de Skunk For Thieves | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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