# Eyebrow bugs: couldn't you just have lied?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [January 17, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936 "2004-01-17T16:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/1 "2004-01-17T16:03:13Z")
I am itching all over after reading this one: [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/meyebrowmites.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/meyebrowmites.html) And only “essentially invisible” to the naked eye? That means with good light, and peering closely, one can probably see them, much like those tiny white specks that crawl around Stilton cheese. And now I feel horrifically compelled to go and do a Google search on “skin mites” and spend the rest of the evening dousing myself in bleach. ---
**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/2 "2004-01-17T17:07:16Z")
Also, there’s several billion e. coli in your intestines. Better get rid of them quick, because it’s not healthy to have foreign organisms anywhere near you. Seriously, they’re there to help. They don’t know it, but the skin mites cleanup your outsides and the bacteria clean up your insides. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/3 "2004-01-17T17:12:23Z")
I heard somewhere that in the human body, there are more non-human cells than human cells. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but the thought that my skin is crawling with little critters is enough to make my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/4 "2004-01-17T17:19:09Z")
E-coli I can deal with. Arachnids in my pores I cannot. Thanks to Cecil I will never sleep again, and once the supermarkets open tomorrow I will be removing my entire skin with wire wool. ---
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/5 "2004-01-17T18:33:57Z")
> [@istara](#): > > Thanks to Cecil I will never sleep again, and once the supermarkets open tomorrow I will be removing my entire skin with wire wool. You do realize that the column you linked to was not written by Cecil, but instead by a member of the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board? As such, perhaps this thread should by moved to Comments on Staff Reports. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/6 "2004-01-17T19:02:55Z")
> [@istara](#): > > E-coli I can deal with. how about pinworms that send their young on a joyride through your body? starting from your anus, pass your mouth and eventually back to their parents in the colon? - from a recent [thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=233980) * * * “they mostly come at night. mostly.” ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/7 "2004-01-17T19:08:54Z")
Ooops. I was so horror struck I didn’t notice! ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/8 "2004-01-17T20:24:34Z")
> [@istara](#): > > much like those tiny white specks that crawl around Stilton cheese. :eek: Why did you have to go and do **that**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/9 "2004-01-18T21:22:24Z")
If you think Stilton mites are gross, check out [Casu Marzu](http://www.portlandmercury.com/2000-09-14/scientific.html): > [@](#): > > … Casu Marzu, Sardinia’s favorite black market treat, begins with a local cheese called Pecorino, which is left out in the sun, so that nearby barn-flies can deposit their larvae into it, until it becomes overpopulated with a swarming mass of maggots. The enzymes “produced” by the maggots cause the cheese to ferment, which, in turn, decomposes the fats, creating a living culinary delight… > > Moreover, the lively maggots are far more entertaining than dull cherries suspended in Jell-O, as the creatures continuously leap from the cheese as you eat it. Part of the ritualistic ceremony involves covering the mess with the hand, to keep the little buggers from snapping into the eyeballs with “ballistic precision.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrow-bugs-couldnt-you-just-have-lied/224936/10 "2004-01-25T02:32:51Z")
There’s that wonderful stuff my brother likes to eat, it’s sold in Stop and Shops, “Fat-Free Pasteurized Cheese Product”. BwaH! American bastardized cheese!