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