# My Dangly thing hurts... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715 "2000-11-18T03:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/21 "2000-11-18T16:17:07Z")
the epiglottis is the cartilege flap seperating your throat and your nasal cavity… Sue Duhnym knows about Deviated Septums, so I won’t go there… ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/22 "2000-11-18T16:21:02Z")
It doesn’t retract any more! Like, if i look at it in the mirror, it just hangs there big and kinda swollen. much easier for my tonsils to play with it now… and me too, i can make it spin in circles and go back and forth like a clock. i don’t know about pruning shears, if i take it out, what are my tonsils gonna do all day? ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/23 "2000-11-18T16:22:32Z")
they can always play the conga on your epiglottis, and inspect your molars… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/24 "2000-11-18T19:22:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Things could be worse. > Your other dangly thing could be hurting. You mean his earlobes? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Palandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@Palandine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palandine)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/25 "2000-11-18T19:28:00Z")
Knock knock. Who’s there? Babs’ uvula. Babs’ uvula who? I don’t know Babs…But I do know this… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/26 "2000-11-18T19:32:37Z")
**Palandine** LOL - it’s the same reference as **aha’s** line above. “It’ll behoove ya to take care of your uvula.” They’re from the same SNL skit. I think it was Chevy Chase and Lorraine Newman. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/27 "2000-11-18T20:24:32Z")
Your uvula is probably dislocated, it is a common injury among supermodels. To fix it follow these steps: 1. Stick your finger in your mouth until you make contact with your uvula. 2. Push the uvula as far back as you can until you hear a tiny “snap”. 3. Vomiting is a side effect in 64% of dislocated-uvula repairs (DUR). Therefore you may want to perform your DUR in the bathroom. The most common cause of dislocated uvulas (at least among supermodels) is eating. Try to avoid that activity as much as possible. ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/28 "2000-11-18T21:49:23Z")
I woke up this morning, and my uvula was missing. It happens a lot - it’s detachable, you know. _Detachable uvula_… _Detachable uvula_… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/29 "2000-11-18T23:59:54Z")
uvu•la "yu-vye-le\ noun pl uvu•las or uvu•lae -'le, -'li\ [ME, fr. ML, dim. of L uva cluster of grapes, uvula; prob. akin to Gk oa service tree, OE iw yew — more at yew] (14c) : the pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate ©1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All rights reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/30 "2000-11-19T05:49:29Z")
Wump, I’ll be willing to ensure your epiglottis is doing well someone hand me a scope and a #4 miller, and we’ll get started… ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/31 "2000-11-19T08:56:11Z")
Try gargling with salt water. It can’t hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/32 "2000-11-19T18:25:00Z")
Unless it’s, like, rock salt or something. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/33 "2000-11-19T18:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fletch \* > \*\*Out bad and painful uvula! \*\* Maybe if you just cut the tip off? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/34 "2000-11-19T19:16:20Z")
Wump, I had this once, and the doc said it was a side effect of strep throat. Better get to a clinic and have a throat swab done asap - you don’t want to mess around with strep, which is a bacterial infection. The good thing is that antibiotics are effective against it, unlike the common cold. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/35 "2000-11-19T19:24:49Z")
It might be strep, or another infection. Also, it might be… err… wind chapped? Mine swells sometimes and hurts in the morning if I’ve slept with my mouth open (I have very restricted nasal cavities, so I often am a night mouth breather) Usually it gets better in a couple of hours in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/36 "2000-11-19T20:18:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jti \* > \*\*Wump, > I had this once, and the doc said it was a side effect of strep throat. Better get to a clinic and have a throat swab done asap - you don’t want to mess around with strep, which is a bacterial infection. The good thing is that antibiotics are effective against it, unlike the common cold. \*\* I just went to a clinic this morning. after sitting around for about an hour, the doctor took a look, and said it’s probably viral or somthing, did no swab or anything, and was out in 30 seconds… he said i should try some chloroseptic lozenges to sort of num it a bit… but im already on antibiotics due to some sort of lung infection which is annoying as hell and makes me cough up heaps of phlegm. (upside: great range for spitting) but if it is bacterial or has somthing to do with strep the antibiotics im on should fix it. **Commander Fortune** : Gargleing with salt water is already part of my routine, my mommy makes me do it 😛 As for the supermodel solution, i already puke occasionally from coughing fits to get rid of the evil phlegm, and it definitly isn’t helping, so doing it on purpose is not really an option i’d like to try lol 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/37 "2000-11-20T00:44:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\*Tabathina, > > No, you are completely and totally in the right. Your philtrum is the little divot betweeen your nose and your lips. Cute, ain’t it? > > Anyway, uvula is almost a dirty anagram. so I won’t go any further. But remember, the devil is a gooof, and can strike in any which way but loose!?! \*\* WTF?!? Okay, there’s been a few posts where I was obviously superdrunk, and most of those I don’t remember posting. This post, I slightly remember, but I am sure I did not write it last night! I have no computer in my room, was pretty toasted by 2:00am, went right to bed shortly thereafter (that’s when the party ended last night- I’m sure of it), in fact come to think of it I smoked up a wee tad ensuring my bout of unconsciousness. The library and any other computer sources were closed, by 1. What in hell’s deepest pisspits is going on? Could be somebody using my sign-in (I often forget to log out), but why do I remember writing about the philtrum? That’s a little nugget of fact I learned way back from random dictionary surfing (along with phosphenes) and which I get a little squirt of pride from bandying about. WTF? jb ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715/38 "2000-11-20T22:15:34Z")
d’oh dammit, how my feeble brain is easily tricked by the midnight date switcheroo. **Wump** , I hope your uvula is feeling better. jb [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dangly-thing-hurts/41715.md?page=1)