# Your finger is in your nose... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 8, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938 "2006-05-08T19:04:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/1 "2006-05-08T19:04:37Z")
Are you pickin’ or scratchin’? Just wonderin’. ~Winston (scratchin’) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/2 "2006-05-08T19:07:40Z")
It was a scractch! No pick! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/3 "2006-05-08T19:14:24Z")
I’m checkin’ my finger’s aerodynamics in the wind tunnel. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/4 "2006-05-08T19:38:41Z")
Pickin’. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/5 "2006-05-08T19:45:34Z")
Just probing. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/6 "2006-05-08T20:23:49Z")
I lied. _Pickin’._ ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/7 "2006-05-08T21:23:48Z")
Oh, I’m pickin’. I hate those sharp dry boogers that form right at the end of my nostrils. Kleenex just doesn’t work with those pesky stabbers. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/8 "2006-05-08T21:29:05Z")
OW! Now I can’t do math! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/9 "2006-05-08T23:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Your finger is in your nose… No it’snot. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/10 "2006-05-09T01:30:15Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > No it’snot. 'Bout time someone said it. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_make\_a\_hat\_or\_a\_brooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@I\_can\_make\_a\_hat\_or\_a\_brooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_make_a_hat_or_a_brooch)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/11 "2006-05-09T01:39:44Z")
Neither, actually; I’m adjusting my nose screw. And that’s a weird sentence to type for my first post ever. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/12 "2006-05-09T01:43:56Z")
I am performing routine nasal cavity maintaince as outlined in Section 4, Subsection 2a, Paragraph 25 of the “Olfactory System Users Guide”. The LAST thing I need is to void the warranty on this baby… ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/13 "2006-05-09T01:45:41Z")
Scratching, but gently. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/14 "2006-05-09T11:56:45Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > OW! Now I can’t do math! Put the crayon back in? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/15 "2006-05-09T21:36:56Z")
Digging like there’s no tommarow. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/16 "2006-05-09T21:51:11Z")
> [@I can make a hat or a brooch](#): > > Neither, actually; I’m adjusting my nose screw. > > And that’s a weird sentence to type for my first post ever. Yay! …or a pterodactyl? Nice user name! For the OP: I wouldn’t be doing it in public or anything, but doesn’t everyone pick? My nose is pierced so I tend to have some problems anyway. No, not that bad, just - things get caught, so I just clean it regularly. Just like you’d clean anything else in/on you. You all do clean your piercings, right? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/17 "2006-05-10T04:14:13Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > Digging like there’s no tommarow. [You’re in luck; there _is_ no tomorrow.](http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=tomorrow) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-finger-is-in-your-nose/355938/18 "2006-05-10T04:43:38Z")
And so is my other one. Try as I might I can’t get them to touch though. _annoyed grunt_