“This blight was caused by a fungus, Phytophthora infestans, and its effect, where it took hold, was to destroy crops almost completely, leaving farmers with nothing but stinking black rotten remains of the tubers.”

“Seasonal etiquette says you start pretty early with champagne - crack open a can of beer at the breakfast table and you look like a stinking drunk, but fire open one of these puppies and it's the height of naughty decadence.”

“Soldiers said that the city just doesn't stink as it did when they arrived to find sewers backed up all over the place and mounds of rotting garbage.”

“The whole thing stinks of desperation - desperation to seem cool, to seem relevant, to be popular.”