Navel gazing, I mean grazing, oh dear

October 13, 2004 5:00 PM

Cultivating the navel:
The first thing I wanted to do was to change clothes and take a shower. But when I took off my sweater, to my amazement, I could see something sticking out of my belly button! I couldn’t believe it: something was growing in there! [truly, the best of the web, via J-Walk]
posted by moonbird (15 comments total)

So very, deeply, repulsed.
posted by FormlessOne at 5:29 PM on October 13, 2004

So very, deeply, bogus.
posted by tss at 5:31 PM on October 13, 2004

Isn't this exactly what Mom always warned us about?

Great find Moonbird!
posted by mmahaffie at 5:32 PM on October 13, 2004

mmmmmm, Canada!
posted by billsaysthis at 5:34 PM on October 13, 2004

My brother inadvertently grew mushrooms under the seat of his car. Actual mushrooms sprang up.
posted by planetkyoto at 5:34 PM on October 13, 2004

I'm hoping it's bogus. I can't imagine someone being proud of this fact.
posted by FormlessOne at 8:00 PM on October 13, 2004

Fakey McFaker shouldn't lie to us.
posted by amberglow at 8:40 PM on October 13, 2004

please be fake, please. every instinct tells me it's a joke, but nonetheless i'm creeped out by it. am also suppressing urge to sing ch-ch-chia!
posted by mosspink at 9:35 PM on October 13, 2004

Even chia pets take longer to grow, and don't get that big so quickly.
posted by amberglow at 10:02 PM on October 13, 2004

Blargh! What a fine pelt!
posted by loquacious at 11:22 PM on October 13, 2004

Uh, and it looks like a fake plant to me besides. But, truly disgusting, nonetheless.
posted by agregoli at 6:44 AM on October 14, 2004

If it was a real plant he drowned it by watering daily.
posted by sciurus at 11:53 AM on October 14, 2004

I'm more disgusted by the amount of belly button fluff!! I've never in my life seen anything like that. Given another week I'm sure there would be an Amazonian rainforest in there.
posted by floanna at 1:10 PM on October 14, 2004

That looks like an oak tree seedling to me. Unless he had an acorn stuck in there for a while I'm calling bullshit.
posted by AstroGuy at 3:43 PM on October 14, 2004

I don't think it's even a sprout or seedling. More of a branchlet off of a mature tree. Those leaves were not from a fresh sprout. However, I refuse to reload the page to check, even though my navel probably has a thicker pelt anyway.

Though I often contemplate upon my fuzzy, linty navel, I never contemplate upon it with a macro-focus camera. Why? Good God, man! What do you mean, "Why?" For the sake of humanity! For the sake of my lunch! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!
posted by loquacious at 5:46 PM on October 14, 2004