# You've heard of Dr. Pimple Popper.  How about Dr. Booger Picker?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579 "2020-05-28T04:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579/1 "2020-05-28T04:14:09Z")

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Yep, he’s for real. He’s an ENT doctor who isn’t as entertaining as Dr. Sandra Lee, but the channel name sure got my attention.

> **[Dr. Booger Picker](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ2IudEdxQEBMW406qf91aw)**
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> Welcome to the official Dr. Booger Picker YouTube channel, home of Dr. Andrew Compton's office of specialty ENT and facial plastic surgery, where he is proclaimed a "professional booger picker" on the daily.  
> Here you will see our post-op sinus...

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579/2 "2020-05-28T11:22:19Z")

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I don’t know. The name just doesn’t roll off the tongue.

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**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 28, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579/3 "2020-05-28T12:15:44Z")

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Yeah, I can’t put my finger on it but snot something I’d go looking for.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579/4 "2020-05-28T12:18:05Z")

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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> Yeah, I can’t put my finger on it but snot something I’d go looking for.

Why snot?

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**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 28, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579/5 "2020-05-28T13:56:32Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> Why snot?

Because, as a wise man once said:

“When you’re out with your honey and your nose is kind of runny,  
some people think it’s funny but it’s snot”

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-heard-of-dr-pimple-popper-how-about-dr-booger-picker/854579/6 "2020-05-29T00:22:36Z")

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I wasn’t looking for it either, but it popped up (no pun intended) in my “Up Next” column, the one on the right-hand side.