Help settle an ongoing disagreement between my wife and me. Unless you’re easily grossed out, in which case you should bail from this thread now.
My wife believes a booger is a booger. That is, a booger way up inside the nostril is still a booger.
I believe a booger doesn’t technically become a booger until it is either hanging or otherwise visible in the nostril. I further believe that it’s cheating when a short person (my wife) looks all the way up the nose of a tall person (me) from her vantage point closer to the ground and announces that the tall person has a booger that needs to be taken care of.
I’m with your wife. A “booger” is a gelatinous or hardened bit of mucus with dust, debris or germs. Doesn’t matter where it is - your nose, your fingertip, under the manager’s desk or in a tissue.
Nope. A booger is something that can be used as a tool. It can be eaten (bleh), thrown, wiped, or stuck on the back of someone’s collar.
If it’s in the nose, it’s in its natural habitat and ceases to be a booger. It’s part of the natural habitat.
The appropriate response when shorty looks up your nose is to threaten to blow a snot rocket. That should get her running.
You think you’ve got a booger, but it’snot.
You think you’ve got a booger, but it’snot.
You think you’ve got a booger,
{Something something something}
You think you’ve got a booger, but it’snot.
Regardless of what the song says, your wife is right.
I vote for the existential view: A booger is called into existance as an entity when someone calls it a booger, no matter it’s location. To wit: when your wife says “you have a booger in your nose”, well, now you have a booger in your nose. Snot, on the other hand, is snot.
When you’re dancing with your honey
and your nose gets kind of runny
you make think it’s kind of funny
but it’snot!
I used the restroom at a local Shari’s restaurant over the weekend. Someone had taken the time using a Sharpie to make what looked like a miniature parking lot in about a 2 square foot area of a wall. Above it was written “Booger Parking”. The sad part? All the stalls were full.
It cannot be a booger unless it is touched by a finger inside your nose. Once your digital exam has concluded that it is of the consistency that permits picking as opposed to blowing, then you have a booger even if you blow it out. However, it loses booger status and becomes snot if it elongates in one direction either when being pulled out or when stuck to the underside of a finger held horizontally.
HA! I knew it! You talk like my dad. Scary thing is, I totally agree with your specifications of booger. If it’s stretchy, it’s most definitely not a booger, but snot. A booger must have some sort of structural integrity and discrete boundaries, even if it’s soft.
But I’m not sure the digital exam is what creates a booger. It may determine there’s a booger, but doest that mean that the instant before the finger insertion it wasn’t a booger?
It can be a booger before finger insertion, if you are in a place where you cannot immediately pick your nose, such as at your wedding. However, if you are free to pick your nose, then the time interval between booger formation and finger insertion may be neglected.
