# Soft black spots

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 22, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902 "2000-12-22T20:35:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902/1 "2000-12-22T20:35:17Z")

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Years ago, when I was a kid, I was lying down in the bush overlooking a lake in northern Ontario. I was watching these girls swimming and giggling, but I didn’t want to be seen. A short time later I developed about a dozen black spots ranging from pea size to dime size on my arms and legs.Shortly thereafter, the black spots just seemed to rot, and I could rub off the black skin exposing the raw red skin underneath. The problem then just disappeared. Has anyone else experienced this? What was it?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902/2 "2000-12-22T21:16:20Z")

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I think you failed to tell us the most important part:

were they skinny-dipping?

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902/3 "2000-12-22T21:55:13Z")

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I always heard that this kind of thing would cause hair to grow on your palms or go blind, but I guess it can give you black spots.

Who knew?

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902/4 "2000-12-22T21:57:33Z")

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…or **make you** go blind…

I hate it when I ruin a good joke with poor presentation. Damn it all!

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**Author:** ![Yeah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/dbc845/32.png) [@Yeah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeah)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-black-spots/46902/5 "2000-12-23T01:42:14Z")

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spider bites?