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We all used to carry this stuff. I called it skunk oil, we poured it in a 2-gallon can, poured it out, and threw a match in it, and it'd start a fire along all the rails. We're talking in the mid -'70s. Nowadays you'd get in big trouble doing that. – John Meyer	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Fox News’s quite odorful, Fox News’s a rude awakening at times, when a skunk lets go right underneath your house or right under your bed, it makes for a very interesting night of sleep, or lack thereof. – Cathey Haley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She ain't got no legs, we're about as close as peas and carrots. She's the best talker you've ever heard. They say she could sell stink to a skunk. – Jeff Sessions	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. – Austin O'Malley	added by anonymous 11 years ago
What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 11 years ago

We all used to carry this stuff. I called it skunk oil, we poured it in a 2-gallon can, poured it out, and threw a match in it, and it'd start a fire along all the rails. We're talking in the mid -'70s. Nowadays you'd get in big trouble doing that.

– John Meyer

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Fox News’s quite odorful, Fox News’s a rude awakening at times, when a skunk lets go right underneath your house or right under your bed, it makes for a very interesting night of sleep, or lack thereof.

– Cathey Haley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She ain't got no legs, we're about as close as peas and carrots. She's the best talker you've ever heard. They say she could sell stink to a skunk.

– Jeff Sessions

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

– Austin O'Malley

added by anonymous
11 years ago

What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

– Abraham Lincoln

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

– E. B. White

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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