For instance, last night I learned that self-rising flour is not an acceptable subsitute in a cookie recipe when all-purpose is called for.
Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.
OK, I wanna learn something new. This question has been bugging me since I visited the toilet some 2 hours ago.
We all have navel fluff, right ? You know, the lint in your belly button ? Right ?
Guys ?
Anyway. I do. Now my question is (and I’m just too chickenshit to devote an entire thread to it): What IS this stuff ?
I’m thinking it’s some of the fabric of your T-shirt that gets stuck in there. But, no matter what colour my T-shirt is, the fluff is always grayish white ! Is it dead skin ? Does it occur only on people with chest/belly hair ?
What’s the deal ?
Scientific evidence required. Thank you.
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
I learned that CF has navel fluff.
This will completely change my way of looking at him. 
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge…others just gargle.
Let’s go back to Mullinator for just a sec.
Uh, Mull? Just what exactly HAPPENED in your kitchen? Did it include explosions? Or just a mass of steaming cookie dough reaching out from your oven to engulf you?
Uke
Coldfire, Cecil has addressed this issue previously. I direct your attention here:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_080.html
“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
~P.J. O’Rourke~
i learned that wise people should NEVER take a large group of children(8 all between 4 and 8) to toys ‘r’ us
my blood pressure will never be the same
Well Uke, what should have been relatively normal looking cookies turned into 3 and 4" high demons of puffiness. I gave them some time to cool off and they lost all of their height and are now about as thick as a piece of paper.
I may try this with a cake next.
I learned that CF’s navel fluff only comes in one colour…
I opened the door, and look who I found. Damn I’m good
Thanks Uncle. I was hoping for you to pop in, you’re certainly more reliable than our dreaded search engine…
Now that we know the origin of Belly Button Lint, can we extrapolate the same reasoning to apply to Buttcrack Fluff ?
Whaddaya mean, TMI ?
*Coldfire hopes Moosie still loves him *
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
Yesterday I learned the term “hapax legomenon”, which is a word that only appears once in a text, so that it is very difficult to translate (like the Hebrew Bible’s “Lilith” and “Leviathan”, etc.).
Yay!!!
Today I have learned that even after the server people fix your server, there is no gaurentee the same problem won’t happen when the server recycles at night.
The idiots.
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
Well, of COURSE you don’t substitute self-rising flour…at least, not without adjusting the other ingredients to compensate for the fact that the flour already has leavening agents in it! (I’m not sure which ones, but I’m thinking different than those used for your cookies). Self-rising flour is flour that has baking powder or soda in it, it isn’t something weird about the flour itself.
S
After years of trial-and-error experimentation, I’ved learned that cars at the very least require the following:
gasoline
oil
water
air
Furthermore, it seems to make a difference which goes where.
Navel fluff is made up of self-rising flour
I learned (once again) to fight the urge to disassemble something on my car beyond what is necessary to get it working again!
I learned never to read TennHippie’s posts involving PurpleCrackWhore songs, or, if I do, to forcibly remove the knowledge later. Kids, don’t try this at home. (Go over to a friend’s house. It’s much safer that way.)
I also learned what “pecadillo” means.
-BrainWeasel
Squeaks from BrainWeasel’s Cage
http://brainweasel.home.att.net
If naval fluff is made up of self-rising flour, then I think I can save a lot of money at the grocery store and just start using my home-grown product.
No, wait. Naval fluff is just all those sailors and officers extraneous to your normal military needs.
-PIGEONMAN-
Hero For A New Millennium!
The Legend Of PigeonMan - updates every Wed & Sat. If I can be bothered.
Dangit Dangit Dangit!!!
Not to be confused with Naval Fluffers.
pat