rank stranger

It sounds like one who is strange in the extreme (albeit not threatening) from the speaker's viewpoint....Gov. Perry just used it in talking about neighbors taking strangers in during the texas fire situation...I'm pretty sure i've heard it in other informal conversational contexts

"We got people taking in rank strangers"...to show a unique level of hospitality among Texans, as compared to others

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canine mine

A deposit of doggy-doo that waits, undetected amid the grass/dry leaves, for us to step on it.

Dude, you got poo on your shoe...you must have stepped on a canine mine.