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Three skunks guard their “olFactory,” armed with a canister of air freshener.
Their neighbour, the rabbit, has donned
his daily apparel: a gas mask. The unfortunate porcupine with his low
tech defense (a clothes peg), has succumbed to
the awful stench. Even the snake has failed to slither away in time.
Peter’s mouse must be holding his breath. And why
the Australian skink? Well, he thought he was going to star in a Harmony
Kingdom box figurine and is appalled and
embarrassed at his error. How could he confuse “skink” with “skunk?”
Is Australian English so different from American
English or British English? “I love Plum” is a reference to a military
store on an island off the East Coast of the United States.
Inside Edition 1 there is a young skunk reading from a recipe book
and mixing ingredients for the skunk pong in a cauldron.
The inscription around the cauldron refers to the official term for
the skunk's smelly fluid, “mercaptan.” Scattered around the
pot are two tins of baked beans (57 variety), salt and pepper, a bat
wing, eyeballs, fish and more secret ingredients.
The Infinity Version has old sneakers, AND NOTHING SMELLS WORSE THAN
OLD, WET, SNEAKERS.
Hallmarks include ©, star, HBC logo, ed.#, and Pc.