"If you are genuinely desirous of probing your innards with twine, I can suggest an alternative yogic exercise called sutra neti, which involves a dampened, waxed string that you snort through one nostril. After a few days practice, it is claimed, you should be able to inhale the string with such velocity that you can fish the far end out of your mouth.
“With both ends in hand, you can then engage in the practice of gharshana-neti, or string rubbing, which apparently is something like playing the Jew’s-harp. Picture it: nasal floss! I guarantee, it’ll be a day the gang in the car pool won’t soon forget.”
My college friends used to call this “brain flossing”. It’s OK – I don’t think any of my friends ever tried it. Apparently it was all the rage among punk rockers, who allegedly used a chain instead of a waxed string. Somehow I get the idea that the whole thing was an urban legend. (Not the yogic exercise, but the “brain flossing” thing.)
