From an email:

"Boogers are mucus (myoo-kuss). Mucus is the thin, slippery material that is found inside your nose. Many people call mucus snot. Your nose makes nearly a cupful of snot every day. Snot is produced by the mucous membranes in the nose, which it moistens and protects.

When you inhale air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny particles, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these particles made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get damaged and it would be difficult to breathe. Snot works by trapping the particles and keeping them in the nose.

After these particles get stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds them along with some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia. The mucus dries around the particles. When the particles and dried-out mucus clump together, you're left with a booger!

Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working properly."

 

what about those bloody ones that you get after picking your
nose a little too deep?

 

:laughs at seung:

 

Now this is an enlightened thread.

 

Well, I guess that means my nose is working correctly.

 

who in here picks their boogers proudly in public? and who picks them privetly in shame? don't anybody dare say you don't pick your nose

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by AlexM
[B]who in here picks their boogers proudly in public?

 

I use a tissue !

 

i try not to pick mine in public. i once saw john cusack pick his nose in his jaguar, right next to my car: he used his pinky.

and if you use a tissue, which finger (or toe?) do you use to pick it with