XPost: sci.electronics.design, alt.audio.equipment   
   From: trevor@home.net   
      
   "Don Pearce"  wrote in message   
   news:4e4782af.65825604@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > 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.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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