# THAT'S Where My Suitcase Full of Baboon Noses Got To! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341 "2003-09-03T16:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/21 "2003-09-03T23:27:42Z")
Ya know, it could actually be part of the Nigerian Scam with a Godfather variant. Those who try to jerk around the scammers wake up one morning with a baboon nose under the covers… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/22 "2003-09-03T23:49:26Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/23 "2003-09-04T01:53:05Z")
I take it that my order for “baboon nose tartar” will never arrive. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/24 "2003-09-04T02:52:20Z")
Probably was an Amiga user that found them too… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/25 "2003-09-04T07:13:53Z")
I wonder why all those baboons wanted to spite their faces. Anyway, I pity the poor workers who had to pick so many noses. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/26 "2003-09-04T07:29:15Z")
And I was starting to think Gwar had run out of things to dump on its audience. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/27 "2003-09-04T07:44:33Z")
I googled for a while for baboon nose, cure, medicine, recipe, heal, but came up with zip. I came across a lot of sites listing various concoctions to be cooled with baboon’s blood, but nothing for their schnozzes. What exactly do some people believe a baboon nose is supposed to cure or enhance in humans? It gives a chilling new meaning to the old phrase “A nose from any other plane is still swell to eat.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/28 "2003-09-04T08:08:27Z")
I prefer otter’s noses myself. ---
**Author:** ![Trjckster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Trjckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trjckster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/29 "2003-09-04T10:02:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*Sadly, right now there are several hundred baboons in Nigeria with no place to put their fingers. \*\* I think they might have a backup plan…(I’m a sick sick man :D) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/30 "2003-09-04T12:45:41Z")
I wonder how the police knew they were _baboon_ noses? I’m a fairly educated person, but I couldn’t pick a ba—I mean, I couldn’t _tell_ a baboon nose from a chimp nose from an orang-otang nose. Policeman 1: “Crikey, cap’n—looks like we got us a suitcase full o’ baboon noses here!” Policeman 2: “Why are you talking like that? We’re in Amsterdam!” ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/31 "2003-09-04T12:55:57Z")
Dutch police are usually pretty wasted. Your head’s sometimes wired differently when stoned so they might have put two and two together and got “Wow, man” Anyway, it’s no skin off anyone’s nose . . . ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/32 "2003-09-04T13:00:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I wonder how the police knew they were _baboon_ noses? I’m a fairly educated person, but I couldn’t pick a ba—I mean, I couldn’t _tell_ a baboon nose from a chimp nose from an orang-otang nose. > \*\* I think you’d know if the snout was attached. Baboons have really long snouts. Don’t some of them also have brightly colored skin around their noses, or am I think of mandrills? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/33 "2003-09-04T16:48:22Z")
I guess we’re lucky they weren’t baboon _asses._ “Hey cap’n! It’s a suitcase full of lumps of bright red play-doh! Oh wait…” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/34 "2003-09-04T18:13:10Z")
OZ-ZY! OZ-ZY! OZ-ZY! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/35 "2003-09-04T18:14:15Z")
And a big shout out to gretchen, tommy, and andy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/36 "2003-09-04T18:28:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*I prefer otter’s noses myself. \*\* You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you shouldn’t pick your otter friend’s nose. ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/37 "2003-09-04T18:40:09Z")
It occurs to me that maybe there is a clinic in Africa that snipped the baboons’ noses. In the U.S., people pay thousands to have this done. An alternate theory: Maybe Michael Jackson is changing his looks again. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/38 "2003-09-04T18:50:19Z")
Just wanted to re-word the article cited in the OP to the slightly more humorous-sounding (emphasis mine): > [@](#): > > Around 2,000 baboon noses were found packed in an abandoned suitcase at Amsterdam airport when they started to **smell** , officials said Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/39 "2003-09-24T16:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*So, which state is Oscar Meyer based in, again? \*\* As a native of that state, I’m someone who nose the answer to that: Wisconsin ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341/40 "2003-09-24T16:59:24Z")
Baboon Noses? No, I ordered Ballroom Roses! I need a new cel phone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-where-my-suitcase-full-of-baboon-noses-got-to/199341.md?page=3)