The word "skunks"reminds me of something in the comic strip Blondie. When they showed Blondie waking up Dagwood in the middle of the night he'd be making the snoring sound "S-K-N-X!" Like in The Amazing Spider-Man when he'd get an unexpected sucker punch and go "UNNH!"
There was also the Warner Brothers cartoon character Pepe Le Pew, a skunk parody of Charles Boyer who'd spend whole cartoons in romantic pursuit of a cat who'd got a white strip down her back, so he thought she was a skunk too! When you think about it, it was pretty kinky...
Loudon Wainwright did that song that went "Dead skunk in the middle of the road, and he's stinking to high heaven!" (Ever see a dead porcupine on the road?) So sue me, I like sick songs.
Another sick song I like is the Clancy Brothers' "You're Always Welcome at Our House," written by the great Shel Silverstein.
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