The thing with cowshit and chickenshit is that, free-range animals' poop doesn't really smell all that bad. I mean, it's not a walk in the arboretum, but it's an organic, basically recycled vegetation smell. When you drive by factory farms or chickenhouses (of which there are many in NC), what you get hit by is concentrated essence of the excreta of animals fed commercial feeds and mixes containing ground-up bits of their former compadres. And as we all know, the poop of carnivores smells a lot more nasty than that of herbivores.
Chickenshit smells worse than cowflop, anyway, and pigshit is worse than chickenpoop, even if the animals are healthy and free range, though.
ETA: For my money, though, Calli is right. The worst smell is wood fiber: wood pulp for OSB, plywood, chipboard. Urk. The second worst is papermills, which also use wood pulp, plus chemicals and other fibers.
And...I'll bet Mal was familiar with livestock, on his mom's ranch, and could tell if an animal was ill by the smell of its poop.
I'll bet the Alliance has a lot of papermills.
There exist Serenity action figures.
With NONE of the women. Pfeh.
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Huh. Sounds like one of the action figures will be a Reaver.
If it wasna' for the Reavers, wha' wad ye do?
Dude. I so wanted a Kaylee action figure. With a toolkit, a parasol, a tiny wooden box of strawberries and a glitter-and-glue sign saying "Kaylee's Room." And a Simon action figure with sunglasses and a removable shirt. And Inara with a tea set and lots of different outfits. And Wash, with itty bitty dinosaurs and a stick-on/peel-off moustache. And River with a stick that turns into a gun into a stick. And Zoe. Just Zoe.
And miscellaneous accessories, like apples and cattle and a crate of contraband geisha bobble-heads.
Instead we get nothing but Mal and Alterna-Mal and Jayne and a possible Reaver. Lame, lame, lame.
They've only just started. Give them more time before writing them off.
I talked to the Diamond Toys rep at Wizard world in Long Beach. He told me that there will be additional action figures if the movie does well.
When I asked him to define well he said, "Hellboy well, not Star Wars well."
I think it's a lock.
Forgive the observation, but the Mal figure...has an expression reminiscent of someone about to suffer a gastrointestinal explosion. More BDB-M than BDH.
