“Big Barnsmell,” a moonshiner in the World War II comic strip, “L’il Abner,” had a secret still called the “Skonk Works” where he made “kickapoo joy juice.”  Aerospace juggernaut Lockheed Martin adapted the term in WW II when responding to the unstoppable German Messerschmitt.  Their best and brightest produced the legendary P-38 in less than five months, all the while adjacent to a malodorous plastic factory.  Full Article