Boogers

BOOGERS

I don't care how nice you ask me, there is one thing I won't eat, I don't care how much you add to it, to try to make it sweet. Not a giant pot of honey, Not a dozen jars of jelly, Not a sixteen-pack of soda pop, will get one in my belly, Use a tank of maple syrup, or a truckload full of fudge, Bring a hundred cans of frosting, but you will not make me budge, Try a thousand pounds of chocolate, or a million tons of sugar, I don't care how much you sweeten it, I will not eat aÐ'...

Booger nosed people have been roaming and picking on the earth for many centuries. The crustiness, slime, and fluids that develop in a person's nose has been a wondrous phenomenon at the tips of our fingers through out the ages.

To start off, I'll talk to you about what boogers are and what they contain. To understand what boogers are, you need to know about mucus. Mucus is the sticky, slimy stuff that's made inside your nose. If you're like lot of kids, you have another name for nose mucus: snot. Your nose and sinuses make about 1 litre of snot every day.

Mucus has a pretty important job - it protects the lungs. When you breathe in air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny things, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get irritated or infected, making it be tough to breathe. Luckily, snot helps trap this stuff, keeping it in the nose and out of the lungs.

After this stuff gets stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds it and some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia. These hairs help move the mucus and the trapped stuff toward the front of the nose or the back of the throat. When the mucus, dirt and other debris dry and clump together you're left with a booger. Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. Everybody gets them, so they're not a big deal. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working the way it should!

If you have to get rid of boogers, your best bet is to blow 'em out of your nose and into a tissue, not on your hand or sleeve. Picking your nose isn't a great idea because boogers contain lots of germs and because poking around in your nose can make it bleed.

Many people find the Ð''booger'' gross and unpleasant, while others find them fascinating, and surprisingly tasty! What category do you fall under?

First I'll talk to you about category number one. Most of you will probably fall under this category because your smart and know that things that come out of your nose are not that great and contain dirt, dust, pollen and germs. Also, if you fall under this category the poem I started off with is something you would say. But, the poem I'm going to recite to you now, would be something someone from the other category would say.

I love this little booger, All shiny, green, and black. You can