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talkofthetown - > Talk of the Town -> The navel fluff phenomenon explained
The navel fluff phenomenon explained

Ever wondered why your belly button attracts such an impressive collection of visitors by day's end?

Well, an Austrian scientist has studied 503 pieces of his own navel fluff and made some interesting observations, like:

Chemical analysis revealed the pieces of fluff were not made up of only cotton from clothing. Wrapped up in the lint were also flecks of dead skin, fat, sweat and dust.

This is the same scientist whose other projects include monitoring the erosion of his wedding ring.

Posted in the News interest group.
Topics: belly button, navel, scientist, fluff, lint, study
posted by talkofthetown on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 09:10 AM
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posted by witterpitters on Mar 5, 2009 at 09:23 AM

WOW!! I for one am sure glad THAT has been cleared up!!!

posted by randomfactor on Mar 5, 2009 at 09:46 AM

Talk about omphaloskepsis...

posted by catpaw on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM

Is the scientist making comparative studies between innies and outies? Inquiring minds want to know.

posted by Lingtaowoo on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Just when I thought I've heard it all....wonder who will think about using this info to germinate seeds....


posted by sagefever on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Possessing a "innie" myself~ I was curious about that.Seems that an innie would have more...

 

posted by Laurah on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:09 AM

File that under, "Useless crap we didn't need to know."

posted by bakoblue on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Man, I want a job where people pay me to examine bellybutton lint. I had no idea people would pay you for that.


posted by VirgilAnderson on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM

 

 

For your musical enjoyment ... the bellybutton song

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

--virgil

posted by WardCleaver on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM

YUCK!!!

 

 
posted by witterpitters on Mar 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Ward.................THAT looks like mold!!!!  Guess this guy carries his penicillin with him eh?!

posted by msjenny on Mar 5, 2009 at 03:12 PM

too funny Virgil, as I watching I named them SCR, Learn, Mexico but could not come up with a fourth name,,,,lol.....lol

Just a joke

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