# Good news! I have discovered the Motherlode Pore(tm)! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080 "2002-07-02T18:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/1 "2002-07-02T18:42:40Z")
Yesterday evening, at approximately 8:30 PM, EST, as I was lazily scratching my boyfriend’s back, my fingernail caught on what initially appeared to be a small scab. Intrigued, I investigated further, an lo! I discovered what must surely be The Motherlode Pore™ After months of searching for this fabled deposit, I had nearly given up hope. But my tireless quest was rewarded! With only slight pressure, the Pore yielded what must surely have amounted to several milligrams of a thick, waxy substance of a peculiar brownish hue that I had not previously encountered in my search for the perfect squeeze. When the contents of the lode were finally completely expressed, a deep and fairly regular circular hole was left, several millimeters deep and possibly as much as a centimeter wide! I gazed in wonderment and wept openly at its beauty. I can only hope this initial and momentous expression was only the beginning of a deep and ore-rich vein that will yield countless hours of joyful squeezing. Oh, would that I had a scanner to share with you all this thing of beauty, this prodigy of nature I have found on my boyfriend’s back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/2 "2002-07-02T18:49:34Z")
you are only slightly less disgusting than this dog we had once that would lick this greenish cheese-like substance from the tip of his dick. only slightly… * * * This OP not worthy of a sig. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/3 "2002-07-02T19:15:54Z")
You’re going to make a bunch of Dopers jealous. There’s closet and not-so-closet pore poppers out there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/4 "2002-07-02T19:26:26Z")
I can’t believe you posted this. My boyfriend _never_ lets me squeeze his back zits!!! You don’t realize how lucky you are. That is disgusting, amazing, and all around messed-up. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/5 "2002-07-02T19:40:00Z")
My husband has two of those bad boys on his chest. It takes about a year for them to build up into something good, but if it wasn’t for me, he would still think they are moles. I love them. He has something far more minor on his back. I just like that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/6 "2002-07-02T19:43:43Z")
I sure wish I had someone to squeeze my zits and pull out my blackheads. Angie doesn’t seem to be interested in pore mining and I’d like to have someone get the ones I can’t reach. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/7 "2002-07-02T19:43:54Z")
A _centimetre_ wide? Wow. I am in awe. Knee deep in awe. And sebum. It will fill up again. Leave it for a couple of months, and see… ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/8 "2002-07-02T19:55:16Z")
And here my boyfriend and ex (who as of yesterday share an apartment . . . hoo boy, am I in for it or what?) though I was the only one who did this. Thankyou for proving that I’m not quite as statistically rare as they thought! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![welby1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/9 "2002-07-02T20:28:24Z")
I’ve got this boil on my inner thigh . . . ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/10 "2002-07-02T21:35:23Z")
Oh how I wish there’d been a TMI warning in the title. I’m just going to clean the vomit off my keyboard now. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/11 "2002-07-02T22:53:16Z")
There are other Dopers out there who are just as sick and twisted as I am. I found a thread about this exact thing once, but I can’t find it now. Anybody remember it? As for the boyfriend, he _hates_ to be ‘picked’, as he refers to my ‘hobby’, but realizes it is a necessary evil of routine maintenance which keeps him from looking like the Elephant Man. No, really. His facial skin is pretty clear, except for the nose area, which is a hotbed of activity. Those suckers fill up in days. 😃 And then there’s the back: truly a thing of beauty. And this pore was miraculous in its form and function; expressing its contents was the closest I have ever come to a spiritual experience. It was like his back was birthing something. I appreciate nature in all its myriad forms. Even the wretched and diseased have a friend in me. Besides, I like to perform grooming behaviors with individuals to whom I am emotionally bonded. I **am** a primate, you know. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/12 "2002-07-02T23:11:11Z")
\*\*ratty, \*\* here you go! [//boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106449&highlight=blackhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106449&highlight=blackhead) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/13 "2002-07-02T23:23:47Z")
I adore mining back zits. There is nothing quite so rewarding as finding the motherlode. I still remember exactly where a past boyfriend of mine’s was… right above the wizard hat on one of the 38 tattoos he had… it was right between his shoulderblades and every 3 or 4 days you could get such marvelous waxy stuff out of it. Ahhhh… those were the days. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/14 "2002-07-02T23:29:46Z")
Something didn’t work there and I can’t figure out what I was doing wrong. But do a search on “Favorite pimple stories(maybe TMI)” and you should come up with it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/15 "2002-07-02T23:43:55Z")
Okay, I think I have it now! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106449](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106449) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/16 "2002-07-02T23:54:41Z")
A hole a centimeter wide? Don’t you think it’s time for your boyfriend to see a dermatologist? :eek: Other than that, I’d like to thank everybody for making me read all that. Excuse me, I’ll go and toss my cookies now. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/17 "2002-07-03T00:38:30Z")
Ratty, there are several threads on this subject that have been thoroughly discussed and conjectured about, and I believe I have read all of them. Just a hint, do a search for pimples, blackheads, cysts, etc., and you should hit a motherlode of threads that should keep you busy for awhile. I love this website. P.S. Don’t listen to Coldfire. He loves this stuff; he just thinks he has to set a good example for the posters here, so he tries to act like he’s a grownup. But we know better. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/18 "2002-07-03T01:00:45Z")
I can assure you I’m quite serious. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/19 "2002-07-03T01:06:42Z")
_Sigh_ I wish I had someone with me who could pinch out the blackheads on my nose and face (I can’t)… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080/20 "2002-07-03T01:25:19Z")
Ahh…I have achieved a state of Zen Squeezee: I have discovered TWO Motherload pores on myself. One just right of my chin and one right where lower left ribs attach to my spine. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-i-have-discovered-the-motherlode-pore-tm/117080.md?page=2)