What's that stuff that can build up between your toes?

16^th January 1999

How much snot is alot?

Has anyone truely studied nose picking? I want to see the book if it written, with detailed diagrams and medical close-ups. How much snot do we eject each year? Could it be the better part of 10 kilograms?

Idle speculation you say. But think again. Almost 20 million Australians with, lets say, an average of 1 kilogram of snot production a year to be on the conservatve side.

Australians litter the earth with 20 million kilograms of boogie balls.

Now, I am inclined to think most people would lose their boogers inside. Outside is a bit more difficult. Especially if you are jogging. Sure a the occasional oyster hits the streets, but that is a different proposition.

I am talking about those putty-like to almost plastic things that are processed oysters in essence. You can't say to me that sundried tomatoes compare with raw tomatoes.

Being largely thrown out offices, homes, cars, and public transport, the result is the same: they get vacuumed and swept into the garbage, and go to the tip.

20 million kilograms of dried oysters would take up a fair volume. Sydney alone is producing 4 million kilograms, which means our local tips are holding about half a million kilos of snot taking up a volume of 4 million house bricks is my guess. You only need 15,000 to build a small cottage.

Sydney's annual snot production takes up the same space as 280 small cottages. Not bad really.

What if we set up a snot collection point and accumulated the worlds biggest booger ball? Now wouldn't that be something? We could have the official olympic booger ball, the largest booger ball ever, and we could invite visitors to add their fair share.

Instead of a standard geographical globe, we would have a snot map globe.

People could go around it and try to pick the best one!

end of rave.

(C)opyright Sylvano Lucchetti.