# I can't believe I saw you put that in your mouth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612 "2003-04-18T18:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/21 "2003-04-19T21:58:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Won’t somebody think of the candles? \*\* Darn it, **lieu** , you are just crackin’ me up left and right lately. Were you always this funny? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/22 "2003-04-19T22:03:33Z")
don’t forget dead skin from scratching (find those treasures under the nails)…recycle! aren’t they full of nutrients? ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/23 "2003-04-19T22:23:57Z")
UGH!! My eight grade social studies teacher did this. He’d pick his ears with a pencil, and then lick it right off while we were taking tests. GROSS! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/24 "2003-04-19T22:46:58Z")
You haven’t lived until you have seen someone scraping between their teeth with a fingernail, and then scraping it off into their mouth. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/25 "2003-04-20T00:27:10Z")
At least that was already in your mouth, though. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/26 "2003-04-20T01:10:40Z")
From Instapundit (he linked to the full story which now appears to have been archived): “MORE IRAQ NEWS: The Marines found 123 prisoners, including five women, barely alive in an underground warren of cells and torture chambers. . . . Severely emaciated, some had survived by eating the scabs off their sores. All the men had beards down to their waists, said onlookers. Most looked absolutely dazed when they emerged, said Mr Sadoun Mohamed, 37, who lives in the area. ‘They had not seen sunlight for a long time,’ he said. ‘They kept blinking and covering their faces.’ He said they were taken to the Saddam Hospital for treatment. Their names were posted on the walls of the Al-Hajabehia Mosque in west Baghdad, as were names of some 40 others known to have been executed or murdered in prison. Hundreds of anxious locals wait for word of their family, relatives and friends, some of whom were taken away more than 10 years ago.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/27 "2003-04-20T01:20:03Z")
Now, now – calm down. Each and every one of us is entitled to eat his/her own earwax. _ONCE._ Anyone who would knowingly taste it a second time is, it goes without saying, deranged. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/28 "2003-04-20T05:24:18Z")
There was this nasty, geeky, old pimply weird looking guy in my Western Civilization class in college. You know the type…they always interrupt the professor with some question or comment that they think is so profound, but everyone else looks at each other rolling their eyes thinking, “this guy is such an idiot” (even the professor) ANYWAY…this guy would scratch inside his ear with his pen, and this put the pen in his mouth. ::shudder…vomit::: ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/29 "2003-04-20T06:19:37Z")
Why is there no puking smiley? Why? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/30 "2003-04-20T09:58:06Z")
Why would anyone eat earwax? It tastes horrible! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/31 "2003-04-20T12:32:00Z")
WARNING TMI!!! There was a girl I knew in grade school, who didn’t have the best personal hygeien. Anyways, to make a long story short and skip past the details…She would scratch at her scalp and eat this nasty orange stuff they she picked off it. ewww I gag just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/32 "2003-04-20T16:16:48Z")
And toes. Sucking on toes is not so bad. And nipples can go in your mouth (or do those count as sex organs already referenced by **Jonathan Chance** ). ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/33 "2003-04-20T16:26:59Z")
I was sitting at a traffic light and had the misfortune of watching in the rear view the lady behind me dig around/excavate a nice booger from her nose, look at it and then pop it in her mouth. Hey, I guess if it comes out of your own skull it can’t be too bad! Just then the light changed. Whew! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/34 "2003-04-20T19:06:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*And toes. Sucking on toes is not so bad. And nipples can go in your mouth (or do those count as sex organs already referenced by **Jonathan Chance** ). \*\* Yes, but they better be _clean_ toes. Toejam is _not_ a condiment! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/35 "2003-04-21T14:02:06Z")
Vitamins, drugs (legal or otherwise), and drug delivery systems (e.g. cigarettes) don’t qualify as food or drink, but you put 'em in your mouth. Pretty much any bodily appendage that _can_ fit in the mouth can be nibbled or sucked as part of foreplay: nipples and toes have already been mentioned, and fingers and earlobes belong on the list too. Can’t leave sex toys off the list. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/36 "2003-04-21T14:32:35Z")
My foot fits rather nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Zenham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a5b964/32.png) [@Zenham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/37 "2003-04-21T18:32:12Z")
Hrm, how about someone else’s tongue? ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/38 "2003-04-21T18:52:56Z")
Nose pearls do **not** go in the mouth. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/39 "2003-04-21T19:31:12Z")
I wonder if spit beads up on his tongue now? ---
**Author:** ![Margo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Margo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Margo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612/40 "2003-04-21T22:16:01Z")
Maybe it tastes like those wax lips? [http://www.candydirect.com/html/eng/1516-AA.html](http://www.candydirect.com/html/eng/1516-AA.html) Not that I would know…I have put many things in my mouth…but never nose jewels or ear wax…ack, that is nasty… But he probably recycles his toilet paper too… Margo [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-saw-you-put-that-in-your-mouth/169612.md?page=3)