for Erik, et al

People who have reason to sea-salt soak their nasal cavities (like cause they poke dirty nails into them) might be interested in this... the URL came from some of my irc friends, who were laughing their asses off and didn't see any possible application for the concept.
http://www2.active.ch/~gerstei/main.en.html

It *is* funny... especially with those pics, but *shrug* if anyone has $50 to throw around and wants to soak their inner nasal passages...

While we agreed that the pictures are really funny, she'd read of such things in her yoga books. I like the idea a surprising amount for someone who hates having fluid in her nose. I want to get one.

Now you can at last grasp what great and vital inventions come out of Switzerland. *sigh*

Tjose pics were really scary.

That is a 'rip-off' of a yogic practice called 'Jali Neti.' I've been doing it every day before I practice for years . . . I've never used more than I small tea pot (~ $3 at an Asian cooking supplies or ceramic store) and pure sea salt (Hains); add enough to just above tepid water so that you can barely taste the salt. Oh

It's for freshness: to keep the nose from smelling.

Same here, and I hate having water in my nose. I'm gonna get a neti! I'm gonna get a neti!

too much unnecessary equipment - if I want to clean my nasal passages I simply put my fingers in them I can get most of my pinky in my nose and I can reach up into my nose from inside my mouth. Either that or just floss them with a condom.

I did get some nasal saline spray for dryness on the tour, but rarely felt the need to use it

Erik Sprague - Amago with the Jim Rose Circus aka Snakeboy -<

that one was 'squicking', wasn't it?

You are correct, still one of my favourite words off of usenet.

It reffers to the sound made when fornication takes place twixt the lobes via a

ahhh,yes... i found it, the term(s) i wanted were 'necking, retro-fellatio, stoma blowjob, deep throat' also i found 'scronking' : 'scronking, v. the act of inserting the male genitalia up the throat of a trachiotomy patient, or torsoless head. derived from 'screw' and 'honking', due to the similar look of a honking goose; eyes bulged, mouth wide open, with a fully erect 'tongue-like' object protruding between the gaping teeth. sound effects optional.'