The weirdest place to find a hair...

[Jon Miller]

Decides not to ask about a rusty trombone.

JM

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Zoid
My oboe doesn't get played much nowadays. But at least it gets plenty of polishing...

Hey, I wanted to post that!

[Colon™]

Re: The weirdest place to find a hair...

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
(This is probably the best topic name I've ever had to post. Just wanted to share that. The rest of the post isn't so good though.)

Last night I was eating my way through a container full of prunes* and one hit the back of my throat and left a bad feeling, like there was a bit of seed or other shell in there. I took a drink of water and waited for the feeling to subside.

It didn't.

Using my unusually articulate tongue, I probed back near my right tonsil and found, much to my amazement, a crinkly hair stuck firmly in the tonsular crypt. I can only reach this hair with my tongue by sucking my throat in and probing round to the back of the tonsil mass. If I have my mouth open, there's no internal vacuum to bring the tonsil forwards within reach of my tongue.

I tried reaching back with my fingers to grab the hair, but they weren't long enough. I tried reaching back with a pair of tweezers, but the hair's stuck on the far side of the tonsil and can't be reached directly with the tweezers. (Not to mention I can't see for crap when I'm doing that.)

I even tried vigorously brushing all around that tonsil with my toothbrush just to see if the bristles would grab the hair. Not only was that immensely uncomfortable, but the hair was still there.

I went to sleep thinking that this is the weirdest body hair I've ever had to try to get rid of. This morning I woke up with all the symptoms of tonsillitus, except only my right tonsil was inflamed.

The hair is nowhere to be found. It's either stuck, Akira-like, within the swelling mass of my right tonsil, or it's wriggled free and either been swallowed or spat out.

Just wanted to share. Of course if you have any advice for internal oral depilatory techniques, I'm listening

* It's a girl thing.

Can you make a video of your attempts to remove the hair and put it on youtube?

[Heraclitus]

Re: Re: The weirdest place to find a hair...

Originally posted by Colon�


Can you make a video of your attempts to remove the hair and put it on youtube?

I second that motion!

[Zoid]

Gag reel?

[Dr Strangelove]

Are you sure you weren't just feeling your Uvula?

[Krill]

What. The **** AC.

[Zkribbler]

There should be any hair there.

Hair grows out of the epidermis. The skin in your alimentary canal is dermis (and coated with a mucous membrane euuuuu).

[Theben]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia

Same as how I'm okay kissing him after he's verbally abused the bald man in the boat.

Just say no to abuse.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
There should be any hair there.

Hair grows out of the epidermis. The skin in your alimentary canal is dermis (and coated with a mucous membrane euuuuu).

Yah, I'm pretty sure the hair is a foreign object that found its way in along with some food. (Prunes in this case.) If it turns out the hair was actually growing in my tonsil rather than just trapped in it, I'd probably call up the Guinness Book of World Records first and a good doctor second

[The Mad Monk]

The doctor will probably just find your unborn twin who's been stuck in your tonsil the whole time.

[Theben]

So she devoured him in utero to remove any possible competition. Why am I not surprised?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Hmm, if I have an unborn twin who's a boy, that would explain lots of things, not least why I like farting and burping jokes, but also why I watch porn.

Good work, Theben!

[Heraclitus]

I have an urge to quote Che.

[Wezil]

You should resist that urge.