okay, this has been driving me nuts!!!!!!!

[Russianwolf]

I don't know if this is the proper place to bring this up and I hope you guys don't mind, but:




















Where the heck does belly button lint come from?!?!?!?!?

I've been noticing that every time I see my belly button, I seem to have enough lint in it that I could clog a dryer vent. I'm starting to think that the lint is actually being made in my body and that is the ejection port!!!

okay, now that I've gotten that off my chest.....er.. out of my belly button, I feel better.

[wreckwriter]

well..... it comes from your shirt

[tribalwind]

too much info for me man, lmao!

all that wolf fur must act as a lint trap

[LCHIEN]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_button_fluff

way too much stuff when I googled belly button lint

[430752]

Okay! I know we're not supposed to discuss politics and religion here, but perhaps the moderators could add bodily functions too! No offense, but I didn't need to think about it and then read a scholarly discussion on it a wikipedia!

(but it was interesting, just wondering what comes next? smegma?)

curt j.

[Tom Miller]

When it's more sawdust than lint, you know you had a good day!

Regards,
Tom

[germdoc]

That's not belly-button lint, it's just your stuffing coming out.

My father told me that my belly-button was "where the Yankee shot me" and for 4 or 5 years I believed him.

[Scottydont]

A web search revealed...

Believe it or not, the results of a year-long belly button lint survey of some 5000 individuals have recently been released by an Australian scientist-turned-science-commentator, Karl Kruszelnicki. His conclusion? Kruszelnicki suspects that belly button lint is the fibers of clothing (from below the belly button) that get channeled to the navel by hairs acting similar to a conveyer belt, or moshing pit — take your pick. According to his research, belly button lint is more prevalent in hairy than hairless people, and, despite the seemingly sexist nature of this observation, affects more men than women. But Kruszelnicki did find hair-free women who still ended up with lint. Too many abdominal crunches, perhaps? And, as could be expected, people with "innies" are more likely to have belly button lint than people with "outies."

Now the next question on your mind, as with thousands of other curious belly button lint-pickers out there, is obviously, "Why is my lint always blue-gray?" According to the survey, lint color reflects the color of the clothes you're wearing, and most popular colors all taken together produce a blue-gray hue, much the same as they do in dryer lint.

You can take a look at the survey's web site for yourself, but remember, this isn't really scientific. It's the only work on belly button lint as of this date.

Interesting end note: to bust the belly button lint, you can get a navel ring. Apparently, most people who have their belly buttons pierced notice a significant reduction — sometimes even complete eradication — of belly button lint from their adorned midriffs. If cotton swabs and/or fingers fail, lint brushes, rollers, and vacuum cleaners (using the attachments for hard-to-reach places) can help dislodge the lint, but may result in skin irritation, pinching, and strange looks.

Alice

[Bruce Cohen]

You guys have WAY TOO MUCH time on your hands,

And now, I think I'll go off some where to contemplate my naval

Bruce

[just4funsies]

It's left there by the belly button fairy...

(Actually, I always thought it was nesting material brought in by crabs.)

I have purposefully kept an old dull 1/2" drill bit around to clean mine out... If it ever gets really bad (i.e. the drill stalls out) I'll probably have to use dynamite.

[LinuxRandal]

You know those missing socks from the dryer? They have broken down on an atomic level, converting most of their mass into heat (that is channeled outside, because the utility companies want you to use their power), and the left over atoms, attach themselves to large masses (shirts), then reform in the black hole (belly button) as lint. I believe this was Stephen Hawkings Doctoral thesis!

[BobSch]

Just think how lucky Adam was...