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echo: barktopus
to: Frank Haber
from: Mark
date: 2004-06-18 18:48:42
subject: Re: Noble Stinks

From: "Mark" 


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> You know, the really old farts here should do an essay on the vanished
smell
> of the bad old pre-post-industrial age.

> o The sweet tailpipe smell of a clean-burning (but incomplete combustion)
12:1
> gas engine on leaded fuel (see any classic car rally for a reminder - they
get
> it somewhere).

I thought they bought concentrated bottles of lead to pour into the tank?

> o Leaded gas 2-stroke model airplane engines.

They were cool, no need for a separate smoke generating device  I
laid my share of smoke trails from my 3 cylinder, 2 stroke Kawi 400 in the
early 70s

> o And the winner - the Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce plant in NJ -
> 2-year-old rotting anchovies are the magic ingredient.

I really wish you hadn't shared that 

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