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Are noses a reliable source of entertainment?

Asked by Jeruba (56106points) July 11th, 2024

While waiting my turn the other day at the Department of Motor Vehicles (always an endurance test), I wrote this in my notebook:

I’m waiting at the DMV office to renew my driver’s license, long wait, and I’m probably the only one in the place who’s looking around and thinking: Noses are funny. All noses are funny.

This isn’t eccentric-old-lady stuff. Way back decades ago, as a youngster in church with my family, I often had to find distractions from interminable sermons. My father liked us to sit along the right-hand aisle, so my view of the pulpit and choir loft fell across a good many profiles of congregants. I would study and compare noses for entertainment. Sometimes I got the giggles, and of course could not explain why.

Never did I see a nose that wasn’t funny. Sure, some of them were only mildly funny, not hilarious, but the strictly serious noses were apt to be the funniest.

This is a gift that hasn’t deserted me with age.

Granting their utility and their ability to hold up your eyeglasses, what’s your take on noses?

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RocketGuy's avatar

I don’t pay much attention to noses. I tend to focus on mouths. People’s mouths move in unique ways. I can identify certain people by just a zoom in of the person talking. When my daughter’s boyfriend talks, his mouth moves the same way as when his mother talks.

elbanditoroso's avatar

It’s not the nose itself – it’s what inside it that counts.

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