Rowlandson sees the laughter of the rustics and the tears of the city folk — one old geezer even needs smelling salts — as equivalent.
If old bookstores intoxicate you, you'll need smelling salts when you walk down aisles of biography, history, fiction, art and other topics, average age measured not in years but decades.
For those Jets fans who need smelling salts by this point, here's a link to better times: a Fifth Down blog post last year pertaining to a Brady appearance on the same radio show.
And don't even get me started on lesbian Republicans; I'll need smelling salts.
I don't know about you, but whenever I walk into a Home Depot store, I need smelling salts and something to lean on.
I needed the smell of the subways, the vendors selling their cheap metal jewelry, passing it off as sterling silver, and a stronger sense of my own community.
Although she couldn't have a dog at that time, "I needed to smell dogs, just be around them," she recounts.
"I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles," she wrote in "Marcella Cucina".
In general, less energy is needed to smelt sulfide, oxide, or hydroxide minerals than is required to smelt a silicate mineral.
Forget the vibrator – he'd have needed the smelling salts.
