What is a booger and what is it made of?
Main Entry: boog·er
Pronunciation: /BOO - grr/
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of English dialect buggard, boggart, from 1bug + -ard Date: 1866
1 : BOGEYMAN
2 : a piece of dried nasal mucus
Boogers are mucus (myoo-kuss). Mucus is the thin, slippery material that is found inside your nose. Many people call mucus snot. Your nose makes nearly a cupful of snot every day. Snot is produced by the mucous membranes in the nose, which it moistens and protects.
When you inhale air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny particles, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these particles made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get damaged and it would be difficult to breathe. Snot works by trapping the particles and keeping them in the nose.
After these particles get stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds them along with some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia. The mucus dries around the particles. When the particles and dried-out mucus clump together, you're left with a booger!
Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working properly.
Posted by anonymous at March 20, 2007 8:00 AMWow! An anatomy lesson! That's just what I was looking for when I logged on today!
Posted by: at March 21, 2007 6:40 AMMe too!
Posted by: at March 21, 2007 12:48 PMWait...is this an anatomy lesson, or a recipe?
Posted by: at March 21, 2007 1:43 PMAnd boogers are absolutely delicious!
Posted by: at March 24, 2007 9:37 AMNot as delicious as teenage girlturds.
Posted by: at March 24, 2007 1:37 PMWell, boogers are more conveniently located, and just a little little teeny tiny bit more socially acceptable than eating girlturds. And what the hell is your problem with boyturds?
Posted by: at March 24, 2007 7:14 PMThat is an easy question to answer, and thank you for asking it. You see, apart from the fact that I have been converted to the way of the girlturd, by Indy the Great, I have discerned that digested boogers are not so scrumptious as their undigested counterparts ... and far more boys eat their boogers than girls. Boys also eat other things that render their turds, well, just less yummy than those of girls.
I'm enjoying a 1990 vintage, devoid of digested boogers and other impurities, as I type.
Mmm.
Thanks for enlightening me. Alas, I am female, and for me to eat girlturds would just seem so gay.
Posted by: at March 25, 2007 5:57 AMHmm, that doesn't ring true. Two girls rocking away on the ends of a giant double-headed vibrating dildo would be gay, but not that.
If you feel strongly about not wanting to appear lesbian, then perhaps you could just pretend to everyone that your girlturds were male. Don't worry, I wouldn't give away your secret.