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From: pace@spectra.COM (William B. Pace)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Picking of Noses (Re: Racist Jokes)
Keywords: nose picking
Message-ID: <105@spectra.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 88 07:36:44 GMT
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In article <366@sulaco.Sigma.COM>, allen@sulaco.Sigma.COM (Allen Gwinn) writes:
> Why do I have a feeling that this is going to start a discussion on public
> nose-picking?  :-)     I would like to comment that many times (I feel it
> to be the majority of times) when I pull up to a stop light in my car, if
> I look over at the driver next to me, there is a good chance that he/she
> (although I seem to notice this tendency less with women) will be picking
> his/her nose.  Anybody else notice this?


Compared to the rest of the poor sports crying over the unfunny rec.humor
flaming, this is (dare I say it?) a breath of fresh air.  Personally, I
have noticed that my index finger perfectly fits my nostrils.  I wonder
if this is a universal trait.  Do people with big, fat, stubby fingers
have enlarged nostrils.  Do small-nosed people have small fingers?  Are we
born with noses that match our fingers or do they grow to match the size of
our fingers as we grow older?  If not, are big-fingered, small nostriled
people denied the joy of a good nose picking?  

After all, a good job of nose-picking is like a good belch: it may be
socially unacceptable, but you sure feel better once it's done!

Bill Pace
"My employer disavows all knowledge of my actions"