[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:10:23 +1000, "Trevor" wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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The doctor was, of course, talking about Q-tips when he made his elbow
remark.

A point that seems to have been lost in the retelling.


Change of context is all part of the fun of language.

For a normal, healthy person the ears are self-cleaning and
need no extra prodding, which is more likely to push the accumulated
wax up against the ear drum than remove it.

Yeah, I could never see much point in Q-tips for the ears. They do have
other uses IME.


Plenty of other uses, none of which involve poking them into body
orifices. They are designed entirely wrongly for such purposes.

d