# My innards are spilling out

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-innards-are-spilling-out/84179>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-innards-are-spilling-out/84179 "2001-09-27T20:19:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-innards-are-spilling-out/84179/1 "2001-09-27T20:19:59Z")

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I’ve been spending my time at work today looking this up on google and can’t really find anything… (found some good fetish sights though… hehehe)

What would happen if you were to somehow undo the knot/scar of your belly button anyway? What are the odds it would happen? Has it ever happened to anybody before?

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**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-innards-are-spilling-out/84179/2 "2001-09-27T20:23:30Z")

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You would fly around the room backwards and land flat as a sheet of paper with just your eyes bugging out.

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**Author:** ![Xixox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/13edae/32.png) [@Xixox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xixox)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-innards-are-spilling-out/84179/3 "2001-09-27T20:28:43Z")

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No, that’s just a rumor propagated by Gary Larson’s “Far Side”. Actually if you untie your belly button, your butt falls off.

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**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-innards-are-spilling-out/84179/4 "2001-09-27T21:03:51Z")

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sorry mods-- I don’t know how I did the double thread thing… \<shrug\> Could you combine them or delete one or something? Thanks