Belly Button Lint

 

Let me get right to the question: “Do you have an “innie or an outie”?  Yes, we’re talkin’ bellybuttons!” If you’re an outie you are definitely the minority, but that’s good news because you don’t have to worry about a little problem that people with innies have.

Bellybutton lint.  I know it’s disgusting but someone’s got to talk about it.   Did you know there’s a word for “the small mass of lint, such as that which accumulates in the bellybutton”?  It's called pledget!

Researchers say the color of the pledget in your bellybutton is related to the clothing you wear, it usually ends up being a blue-grey color just like the lint that collects in your clothes dryer! Have I turned you into an omphalopsychite: (AHM-fuh-LAHP-si-kyte) yet? That’s a person who’s obsessed with their bellybutton.Why do you suppose women pierce their belly buttons? Maybe it’s  because of all that pledget, they need a place to hang some air freshener?