# Magazine Boogers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800 "2004-10-23T20:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/1 "2004-10-23T20:19:23Z")
Ya know…the sticky strips that some magazines and mailers use to attach reply cards and such? Damn, these things are fun to play with, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/2 "2004-10-23T20:23:52Z")
There are advertisements? Geez, and here I thought I was just getting toys. More bang for my buck, and all. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/3 "2004-10-23T20:24:55Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Ya know…the sticky strips that some magazines and mailers use to attach reply cards and such? Damn, these things are fun to play with, aren’t they? _In foreign cabbie voice_ “ees made from monkey cum, ju know…” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/4 "2004-10-23T20:39:15Z")
If you are careful, you can get a long enough strip of “monkey-cum” from a full-page ad to be able to snap it at your SO at the far end of the couch. Hours of fun! (or until she bitch-slaps you into the lamp.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/5 "2004-10-24T03:05:12Z")
Speaking for the entire magazine industry, including those who use tip-on advertising and BRCs… We’re glad you enjoy them. Please purchase our sponsors products. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/6 "2004-10-24T03:33:08Z")
Sponsors? Products? I thought those cards were there just to protect the stickey stuff until we could play with it! Sponsors…who’d of thunk it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/7 "2004-10-24T03:38:59Z")
I always think of the stuff as bubblegum for the fingers. If only I could figure out how to blow bubbles… ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/8 "2004-10-24T08:05:21Z")
If I’m understanding correctly, it’s the same sort of goo that attaches a gift card (at least for Barnes and Noble, but probably for anywhere) to the little paper card that it comes in. Yes, it’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/9 "2004-10-24T21:44:57Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Ya know…the sticky strips that some magazines and mailers use to attach reply cards and such? Damn, these things are fun to play with, aren’t they? Uh … well, they were until some guy on the SDMB called them “magazine boogers”. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/10 "2004-10-25T00:35:06Z")
Moving this from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/11 "2004-10-25T00:52:55Z")
Oh my God, there are other people who play with this stuff. Don’t you hate it when you’re peeling it off, and you stretch it out as faaaaaaaar as you think it’ll go, and halfway down the damn stuff snaps in half? I still roll it between my fingers though, just in smaller pieces. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/12 "2004-10-25T02:33:44Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > “ees made from monkey cum, ju know…” :eek: And to think I was about to share a story about how I tasted the stuff once. :o Not anymore… ---
**Author:** ![Muerte\_Viscosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Muerte\_Viscosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muerte_Viscosa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/13 "2004-10-25T04:21:44Z")
my family has always called them “alligator snot.” ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/14 "2004-10-25T14:38:15Z")
The “technical term” in the industry is Gorilla Snot. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/15 "2004-10-25T14:50:19Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > The “technical term” in the industry is Gorilla Snot. Q: Why do gorillas have big nostrils? A: Big fingers! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/16 "2004-10-25T15:29:26Z")
I have nothing to say about magazine snot. I just came to say that **Muerte Viscosa** has the coolest screenname I’ve seen in a while. 😃 I hope he/she registers. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magazine-boogers/270800/17 "2004-10-25T19:23:42Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > I just came to say that **Muerte Viscosa** has the coolest screenname I’ve seen in a while. Lesse…I know “Muerte” means “death” (at least I got _something_ out of _Jurassic Park III_). So what does “Viscosa” mean? “Vicious”? “Viscous”? “Ferret”? Actually, after previewing, I realised I could just Babelfish it. “Viscous Death”. Yeah, I’ll agree…pretty cool.