As I sat looking at all the people sharing bottles of wine and eating food that I had never seen or smelled before, I was comforted to know that my fish sticks were on their way.

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After four years of re-enacting The Lord of the Flies I had plenty of incentive to put as much distance between me and my home town as possible, along with a permanent loathing for calisthenics, sumo wrestling, locker rooms and anything that looked or smelled like a gym.

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We smelled a scam in there somewhere, or possibly scamola, and since our whiny emails to the company asking them to explain how exactly this worked went unanswered, we decided to just call them up to try and sort things out.

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Second act or not Mandell sure kept odd company at Sky, and the entire thing smelled bad.

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"Forty-one survivors said that they smelled oil, but there were no witnesses of flames, fire or a water column, nor were there any injuries from these factors, " Yonhap quotes the full report as saying.

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It smelled at first of cardamon, then of cedarwood and plum, with a civet or musky finish.

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