# Toejam Football

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toejam-football/344>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 18, 1999, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toejam-football/344 "1999-12-18T00:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![PatronAnejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@PatronAnejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatronAnejo)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toejam-football/344/1 "1999-12-18T00:31:00Z")

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Gosh, it’s been ten years, but Cecil calls a [toejam football](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_260a.html)

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> …the disgusting ellipsoid that forms when you rub it with your finger

and then proceeds to invoke the Beatles. Of course, to the Beatles a toejam football would be a disgusting **spheroid** , not an ellipsoid.