# Contemplate THIS! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2000, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375 "2000-11-02T11:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/1 "2000-11-02T11:49:21Z")
Believe it or not, I need to know this: _What color is your belly-button lint?_ If you want to throw in the amount and consistancy, that would be fine, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/2 "2000-11-02T12:28:40Z")
I just looked (damn I have a cute belly button!) Couldn’t find any lint, though. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/3 "2000-11-02T12:36:29Z")
I usually wear a white T-shirt under my dress shirt or casual shirt, so the lint is mostly a whitish grey. When not cleaned during the day, it is a little ball roughly the size of two peas on top of eacht other. So, tell me, Slythe. When is the dissertation paper on **Belly Button Lint and Colour Schemes** due? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/4 "2000-11-02T12:49:17Z")
Before **Arnold Winkelried** swoops in here and corrects your use of BB, you might want to switch to ‘navel’ or ‘umbilicus’. Using BB seems to trouble Arnie. History can be found [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=35450). Don’t you guys talk to each other? And before someone swoops down on _me_, I mean this as a joke. See, I’m smiling. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/5 "2000-11-02T12:51:58Z")
Oh, and my umbilicus cavities contents? Nada now. Surprising. I’ll let the day wear on and get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/6 "2000-11-02T12:56:41Z")
None right now because I delintified my navel this morning. No matter what colour shirt I’m wearing, there seems to be a tinge of blue to my lint. Maybe I’m leaking??! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/7 "2000-11-02T13:52:47Z")
If Arnold wants to put in his two cents about “navel” intelligence, he’s welcome. 🙂 The lovely Rhane says that her’s comes out blue more often than not, though occasionally it’ll be yellow. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/8 "2000-11-02T14:01:42Z")
I have no belly button lint, and in fact, almost never do. Science has not yet been able to explain this phenomenom. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/9 "2000-11-02T14:07:59Z")
Whenever I have any, it’s denim blue.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/10 "2000-11-02T14:22:31Z")
Honey… it’s “phenomenon” and yes, there is yet no explanation for your lack of naval lint. Hmmm… seems that I don’t have any either. Maybe it’s something in the air here. We will have to observe each other’s navels more regularly… there has to be a scientific explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/11 "2000-11-02T14:27:00Z")
Absolutely none, none at all. Perhaps the bottlebrush I use to clean it might have some remnants, but I’m at work. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/12 "2000-11-02T14:35:44Z")
Mine’s usually a bluish color too. Sometimes white. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/13 "2000-11-02T14:37:56Z")
Grey. Always grey. If only it were blue… \ ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/14 "2000-11-02T15:17:47Z")
Mine has individual entities of blue, white, and grey. I also usually have a daily collection of ass-crack lint, which is more often than not much more blue. Why do I always have to apologize at the end of my posts? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/15 "2000-11-02T21:33:12Z")
From **Conner** - [QUOTE] I also usually have a daily collection of ass-crack lint, which is more often than not much more blue.\*\* You know, come to think of it, so do I. Mine tends to be blue too. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/16 "2000-11-02T21:42:13Z")
New band name : Blue Ass-Crack Lint FWIW, my belly button lint is usually white, sometimes pale blue. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/17 "2000-11-03T00:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ren \* > **New band name : Blue Ass-Crack Lint** I LOVE YOU GUYS 😃 BWAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA… Sorry. I guess I’m easily amused, huh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/18 "2000-11-03T13:58:48Z")
I’m wondering if some chemical in the belly button causes the “bluing” agent in a bleached shirt to come out. Blue seems like an unusual color to predominate. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/19 "2000-11-03T14:10:41Z")
Hmmm. My belly-button lint is always the colour of the sweater/jumper I’ve been wearing that day. Yet, it’s never the colour of the undershirt I’ve been wearing. Now how does that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375/20 "2000-11-04T04:13:47Z")
It might be because your t-shirt is made of a tightly woven material that doesn’t release much thread, while your sweater is more loosely woven, releasing threads more easily. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemplate-this/39375.md?page=2)