Where does belly button lint come from?

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Sounds like this answer needs a bit of updating based on a recent study:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-talk-navel-lintmar09,0,185325.story

Link to the column: Where does belly button lint come from? - The Straight Dope

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That sounds very much like a study of little value. I can’t think of many studies that have much value when you limit them to studying your own situation. Of course, reading the study might prove it has more to it than appears.

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My Dad always called belly button lint “furntwerner”. I probably have the spelling wrong, if it’s even a real word.

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Your shirt.

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Oh I almost forgot - my husband mentioned that it’s actually interdimensional elves. :stuck_out_tongue:

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From the study:

This stuff just writes its own jokes, doesn’t it?:smiley:

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Yeah, he’s a real navel gazer.