Belly Button Lint - What is it, where's it come from and what should I do with it?

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i get it regularly. i'm not a hairy person, but i do have a happy trail that it gets caugt in every couple of days.

should i collect it and build a bellybutton lint ball?

HELP!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't it come from the lint of your shirt?

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never asked my bellybutton where it comes from

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That's how they make snuff. Snort it!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Doesn't it come from the lint of your shirt?

See, and this is what I'd always taken for granted until I realized that the lint is usually blue or grey even when I'm not wearing a blue shirt. That is, I usually wear a standard white undershirt that's closer to my bellybutton than my oxford or whatever, so shouldn't my bellybutton lint be white? Or today I'm wearing a green shirt, but the lint is not green.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait...there is a better place to ask.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Fascinating!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_lint

― Sundar, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

The existence of navel lint is entirely harmless, and requires no corrective action.

OH THANK GOD

― s1ocki, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Strange that it migrates upward from your skivvies though. So in order to get green bellybutton link, I'd have to wear green underwear. That's something you don't really see everyday.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 10 February 2008 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

the term "navel fluff" is really making me uncomfortable.

― tehresa, Sunday, 10 February 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

btw i'm sick of Dr Karl.

― W4LTER, Sunday, 10 February 2008 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I was doing alright until you mentioned it like that. Now it's kinda warped my brain. Thanks!

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 10 February 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

There's that Ren and Stimpy episode where Stimpy picks his belly button lint too much until he somehow climbs inside his own belly button and becomes the slave of Jerry the Bellybutton Elf, voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDcqt2m4uAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZodWpx3VF8&watch_response

― saudade, Monday, 11 February 2008 16:26 (eighteen years ago)