# A Fun Game We Can All Play **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 6, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758 "2000-05-06T15:37:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ElDestructo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@ElDestructo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElDestructo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/1 "2000-05-06T15:37:11Z")
OK, kids! Time for a fun new game we can all play! Somehow over Cinco de Mayo tequila last night, the “name all bodily fluids” game got started. But thanks to the after effects of the liquor, I don’t remember them all. Instantly, I thought of the SDMB. “They’ll know all the fluids the human body can generate!” I thought. I’ll get us started: 1. Bile ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/2 "2000-05-06T15:49:14Z")
Urine. ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/3 "2000-05-06T15:52:05Z")
1. blood (which, of course, is composed of many, many separate fluids… Don’t know how specific you want to be.) Do neurotransmitters count? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/4 "2000-05-06T15:52:08Z")
The very thought of participating in this game makes me wanna **puke**. Oh, I guess that’s more of a semi-solid. Let’s get this thing over to MPSIMS (that’s pronounced “M. P. sims”); this is gonne get disgusting pretty quick. * * * Manual sig line #20 ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/5 "2000-05-06T16:20:04Z")
Oh, cum, now!!! ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/6 "2000-05-06T16:22:15Z")
Come on Opus, where’s your spirit of adventure? This is a sure way to broaden your anatomical knowledge. Here’s a couple more: lacrimal fluid (tears) ejaculate sinovial fluid cerebrospinal fluid aqueous humour (found in eye between the lens and the cornea) saliva pericardial fluid (surrounds the heart) lymph ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/7 "2000-05-06T18:05:01Z")
**Dvous Means** , up over we spell it “synovial”. I think I remember reading (in a book by Asimov?) that there are hundreds of bodily fluids. Good luck trying to list them all. In your eye[ul]crystalline humor (fluidlike) vitreous humor (semifluid) liquor corneae[/ul]In your ear[ul]liquor contunii = perilymph endolymph = liquor scarpae[/ul] Fluids of the female reproductive system[ul]liquor folliculi liquor chorii (in pregnancy) amniotic fluid = liquor amnii (in pregnancy)[/ul]Digestive System[ul]liquor diastos gastric juice pancreatic juice intestinal juice[/ul]Cardiovascular[ul]pericardial fluid[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/8 "2000-05-06T18:10:02Z")
Vitreous humor (also in the eye) Pleural fluid (surrounding the lungs) Gastric juices Sweat Mucous Would hormones count? Would any body chemical count? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/9 "2000-05-06T18:11:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > The very thought of participating in this game makes me wanna **puke**. Oh, I guess that’s more of a semi-solid. > > Let’s get this thing over to MPSIMS (that’s pronounced “M. P. sims”); this is gonne get disgusting pretty quick. > > \*\* Yeah, I’m gonna leave it here for now, but I pretty much side with you here. If I end up getting sick reading this thread, I’m gonna blame all of you guys and make _you_ clean it up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-game-we-can-all-play/18758/10 "2000-05-07T02:21:02Z")
Actually, the definitive book on this subject was written some years ago. “Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids” by Paul Spinrad will tell you everything you want to know about this subject, and a lot more. Fascinating and gross at the same time! From what I can remember the information about earwax and smegma was worth the price of the book alone. I’d quote from the book here, but unfortunately, I lent my copy to a friend who soon after moved to Wisconsin. Suffice to say that if you find this book, and I don’t know if the worty tome is still in print, you should buy it immediately. Why books like this are so hard to find while those %#$@)^% Potter books are everywhere is beyond me.