In four happy decades as a rock writer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ms. Scott, who died on Monday at 92, braved mud and mosh pits, foul weather and fouler language, "a drop of bleached blond and pink polyester in a roiling sea of blue denim and black leather," as The Philadelphia Inquirer once described her.
The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground.
Hitting someone with a bouquet could be battery, he adds, but like baseball fans who risk or even welcome foul balls, divas and pit musicians probably give implied consent to bouquets being tossed their way.
Let him and his foul memory fall into a pit from which nothing will emerge.
And that brings us back to the top, as the body of my poor little gnome hero smoldered in the pit of some foul dungeon, staring down an ancient evil unleashed just for me.
Moreover, as the pits fill up, the foul smelling waste, which can contain high levels of pathogens, nutrients and other pollutants, is often sprayed onto ditched fields which can rapidly transport the waste into nearby streams and rivers.
Those old conferences could be tribal bear-pits – smoky too – in which foul prejudices were flaunted.
Often for the Panthers (28-4), that means tugging on a jersey, bowling through screens and turning the foul lane into a frantic and dangerous mosh pit.
Other opinions expressed by the participants was that lack of toilets also led to air pollution as open defecation and the use of 'flying' toilets were used as alternatives, as was the common method of emptying pit latrines using uncovered drums - exposing residents to fouls smells.
