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Below are 2 images of classic bellybutton lint. Cross your eyes
until you see three images, and then you will have entered
Bellybutton lint of the 3rd Dimension..
The blue colour of Belly Button Lint is specifically mentioned
in The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, by Louis de
Bernières. A town is being held under siege by bloodthirsty
and cruel religious crusaders. Elders from the town go and ask a
mad Englishman, Don Emmanuel, for his advice on how to annoy the
crusaders as a form of guerrilla warfare. In his reply, Don
Emmanuel speaks of BBL as "dingleberries". Strangely, he admits
that he does not perform his own BBL removal, but has Felicidad do
it for him . . .
"Don Emmanuel grinned, scratched his rufous beard, and said,
'I will give you all the advice in the world if only you can tell
me why it is that the dingleberries excavated from my navel by
Felicidad are always composed of blue Lint, when I possess no
clothes of that colour.' "
After three years of research, Georg Steinhauser, a chemist, has
discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and
draws them into the navel. Dr Steinhauser made his discovery after
studying 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button. Chemical
analysis revealed the pieces of fluff were not made up of only
cotton from clothing. Wrapped up in the lint were also flecks of
dead skin, fat, sweat and dust. Dr Steinhauser's observations
showed that 'small pieces of fluff first form in the hair and then
end up in the navel at the end of the day'. Writing in the journal
Medical Hypotheses, he said the scaly structure of the hair
enhances the 'abrasion of minuscule fibres from the shirt' and
directs the lint towards the belly button. "The hair's scales act
like a kind of barbed hooks," he said. "Abdominal hair often seems
to grow in concentric circles around the navel." The researcher,
from Vienna University of Technology also asked friends, family and
workmates about their own belly button fluff. Dr Steinhauser
established that shaving one's belly will result in a fluff-free
navel - but only until the hairs grow back. Other suggestions for
keeping the navel fluff-free include wearing old clothes, as they
tend to shed less lint than newer garments, which can lose up to
one thousandth of their weight to the belly button over the course
of a year. A body piercing can also be used, with belly button
rings particularly effective at sweeping away fibres before they
lodge. Dr Steinhauser, whose other projects have included
monitoring the erosion of his wedding ring, said: "The question of
the nature of navel fluff seems to concern more people than one
would think at first glance. "We hope we have been able to provide
information for doctors when they are next confronted with the
simple question of 'why some belly buttons collect so much lint and
others do not'." An earlier, Australian study of samples from 5,000
people concluded the typical carrier of navel fluff to be 'a
slightly overweight middle-aged male with a hairy abdomen'.
Researcher Karl Kruszelnicki said: "The reason it is usually blue
is that we mostly wear blue or grey trousers, often jeans, and when
these rub against the body, the fibres often end up finding their
way to the navel." Not all belly button fluff is blue however. In
the curious case of Australian hospital worker Graham Barker much
of his fluff is red, even though he rarely wears the colour. Mr
Barker has been collecting his own navel fluff in jars every day
since 1984. The achievement has won him a place in the Guinness
Book of Records for the world's largest collection of navel
lint.
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j(wy+v+42+pe)p = (v+ep+42+yw)c