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I once crammed a tart 'n tiny up my nose when I was a kid. The only way to get it out was to wait for the snot, due to my crying, to disolve the darn thing. My mom stilll laughes at the thought of the beautiful purple snot running down my face.
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Sheesh. Anyone knows the only thing that belongs up a nose is a finger! Fingers are a good fit and they don't get stuck.
The finger/nostril fit is just one more piece of evidence pointing to intelligent design in the human animal. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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A friend of man once stuffed some styrofoam up his nose. Nobody noticed until days later when there was a disgusting smell coming from the boy that couldn't be washed off. His mother took him to the doctor and out came the rotting styrofoam. Yum! Then there was my uncle who rammed a button up his nose and made sure it stayed there by packing in a wad of gum after it. I learned from them, though. Nothing went up my nose but my fingers.
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I put coins up my nose when I was a kid. I had a little trouble getting the quarter back out, but I managed it without letting my parents know what I'd done.
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quote:Where would you buy a statue of Herbert Hoover?
Dunno - although I have a sneaking suspicion some of the administration's economic advisors might have statues of him on their desks. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I once put a coffee bean up my nose. I swear it was an accident, but it smelled so good! Fortunately I was able to get it out by exhaling vigorously (before my mom noticed anything was wrong), but for a while I was afraid it was stuck. Must have been 9 or 10 years old at the time.
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Question: should our fingers come with warning labels telling us not to put them in our nose after cutting and handling jalapenos?
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My little sister (probably around age 3) once put a small toy up her nose (a little car, I think). Daddy was so VERY careful to not say anything to upset her and he kept her very calm and took her to the doctor ---
where the nurse prompted really lit into her and bereated her and made her cry -- which (of course) made her SNIFF it back up in there further! (the very thing he was working so hard to prevent from happening). He was so mad....
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*groans* at CT...I wish I could say that was snot funny, but it was. I'm sure that the assurance that Hoover could be removed came as mucus...er, music to Dad's ear.
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Once, on TV, I saw a man snort a spaghetti noodle up his nose all the way. Then he blew it out to see if he could be the world's record for such a stunt. Ugh!
My husband was awed. Posts: 3141 | Registered: Apr 2000
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Then there's the small entertainment niche carved out by those who hammer things up their noses. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I know that I have told this story before (I think I made a whole thread on it!), but my five year old stuck a popcorn kernel up his nose once. I plugged the other nostril and blew in his mouth, and POP! Out it came. I got this idea from someone on Hatrack, but damned if I know who it was. I think it was David Bowles.
*am also curious about where one would procure a tiny statue of Herbert Hoover--old school Homie?*
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Well, I've been googling around trying to find Herbert Hoover statues, and I haven't had any luck.
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Hey, neat idea, jexx, I'll keep that in mind.
We were sitting in church, and DangerGirl was playing with a little eraser off the top of a pencil (it had a happy face on it). She tugged on my sleeve and whispered that it was in her nose. After a few panicked moments in the foyer, while I begged her not to cry or sniff, she sneezed it out.
We were about to leave on a week-long trip, and I swear the universe didn't want us to go. Everything went wrong.
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My brother and I weren't allowed to buy Tic-Tacs until we were about fourteen... Yes, both of us.
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When my mom meets my friends for the first time, she doesn't bring out baby pictures of me naked in the tub. She tells them about the time I got a Corn Nut stuck up my nose. The harder I tried to dig it out, the farther up it went. Of course we were in the car on a loooong road trip. The only solution was Plug 'n Blow.
What I wouldn't give for some naked baby pictures of myself to distract them with.
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When I was about 3 or 4 I stuck a hot pink bead up my nose "to see if it would fit." Apparently it fit a little too well. I think my brother stuck something odd up his nose as well.
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I stuck several Mardi Gras beads up my nose as a 3 yr old. I think I drove my parents nuts. I also got a fish bone caught in my uvula around the same time. Might as well have just hung out in the emergency room! Posts: 601 | Registered: Sep 2002
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I once had a lot of gauze stuck up my nose. This was post-op for a deviated septum "repair."
More like they BROKE the deviated septum, but who am I to quibble?
I would also say that I squeeled like a little girl when they took the 3 lbs of gauze out a week later, except that this would be an insult to the little girl in the next room who had HER gauze removed without a whimper!
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I stuck a sunflower seed up my nose, and I was at school. I was so embarrassed when I had to ask the parent helper who was there that day to help me get it out.
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when I was younger (much!), my cousin shoved about 10 Cocopuffs up his nose, one after the other.
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Second of all - There is nothing worse than taking that gauze out. I swear I was in a chair on one end of the room and the doctor was out the door and still pulling (think pee-wee's big adveture pulling out the bicycle chain).
*shudders to think about it*
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I have had two kids stick things up their nose. The first one did not tell me (being like 2 at the time) but had a stink that bathing and toothbrushing did nothing to alleviate. Turns out that a little chunk of "eggshell" mattress fit perfectly in there.
quote: I never realized that styrofoam rots.
I had never thought foam did either . . . I think it's the long suspension in mucus that does it. Someone should study this phenomenon! We may have the solution to non-biodegradable waste!
Not long ago, another came and 'fessed up to having put a small pom-pom (from older sib's craft kit) in.
In both cases, I followed the advice of a book (checked with the about-to-close pediatrician the first time). Pinching the non-affected nostril closed, place mouth over child's mouth and blow -- NOT too hard. After a blow or two, you get airborne, mucus-laden bit.
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I had one of the little thin Battleship things, you know, the ones you use to mark where your ships have been hit, and put it up my nose. Then inhaled, accidentally, laughing.
Went right up into the part of my nose under the bones and all. They flushed it out or something at the hospital.
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I think the most interesting of the many things my brother stuck up his nose was hamster food pellets. They dissolved quite spectacularly.
I hate to say it, but at some point since my marriage, I put a bead in my ear. To see if it would fit. I may have been around 25 and serving in a Relief Society presidency at the time.
And I'm sure this thread was the stimulus for Xavier declaring that Hatrack is at peak quality.
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When I was young--about four of five--, I once put a wintergreen Tic-tac up my nose. I started screaming immediately because it burned me so. I was outside and I lived in a court at the time. All the parents came out of their houses and concernedly asked me what was wrong, and sure enough, there came along my grandmother, bobbypins in hand. She dug and dug, thinking I was choking and all I could say was: "It burns!" I was taken to the doctor who then simply sprayed saline solution up my nose which rapidly melted it.
My parents kept a bottle of salt water in a squirtable water bottle in the refigerator for a few months after that... Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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My brother got a GI Joe gun stuck up his nose once, and my cousin got a cheese puff stuck in his. And the two of them have also sneezed corn and rice out their noses.
About two days ago I stuck some green pneumatic hosing up my nose. Got a few laughs, too.
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It's not the styrofoam that goes bad, it's the mucus it's infused with that becomes a breeding ground for bacteria and then starts to get rank. Sorry to shatter the lovely dream that I created.
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I had a student once who entertained other students by snorting one end of his chain necklace up his nose, and kind of hacking so it came down into his throat. Then, he would pull the other end out his mouth, so one end was dangling from his nose, and the other from his mouth.
Oh good heavens, I am so grossed out just writing it.
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Where's CT? I really want to hear about Hoover's extrication.
Can you believe with four kids no nose problems yet?
My sister in law has a story about having nose surgery, Bob. In her case it was a tumor that had to be removed from her nose (or a polyp maybe, not sure. Wasn't cancerous though) and they packed her nose and all that. She was an executive with BellSouth, she was in charge for implementing 911 programs in all the rural counties in the south (yes there were places without 911 service up until a couple years ago)
Anyway, she had a meeting a few days after the surgery with some people about the 911 expansion, bunch of suits even higher in the company than her, and her packing came out after she sneezed. So there she was, with a handful of....nose packing and stuff...and I can't even go on.
I can't imagine how she felt, that's got to be high on your list of things you don't want to happen when you're in an important meeting!
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