where does eye gunk come from?

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you know, like, after you sleep. and what's it good for? i was in paris last week and while there, my internal eye gunk factory went crazy, so i'm kinda curious. i figure this is kind of a gross question but not worse than, say, earwax, right? right???!!

― dave k, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know where it comes from but when I was taking crystal meth every day I was producing KEGS of the stuff

― dave q, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's dried up mucus innit!

― katie, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no way! that's disgusting!

― dave k, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fun with eye gunk (Google is a wonderful thing)

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think we used to call these 'sleepy seeds'

― Ron, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad told me that eye gunk is masses of dried up and used up white blood cells.

― Christopher Lyons, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hahaha "if worms had eyes, i'd demand that we have tears" (says the anthropomorphic worm with eyes)

― nabisco, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my lovely earwax nurse said "when people ask me what i do and i tell them, they go EE-EEW SHUT UP SHUT UP THAT'S GROSS, but blimey everyone has it for goodness sake" -> i agree with her she is lovely

sleepy dust!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark are you suggesting that she's a dedicated full-time ear-cleaner nurse?

(Re: the worm I'm mainly appalled that they so casually skirted what is basically the pinnacle of human creation, i.e. the cartoon character that has glasses but no eyes.)

― nabisco, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

she said it, i just reported it

she is The Nurse at the health centre = ear-syringing is a regular if not daily feature of her work

― mark s, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ocular snot - distillate of purest evil

― Kim, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Eye boogers: the great equalizer" sayeth Opus via Bloom County.

― bnw, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Littel faerie folk hold their revels on your forehead and at a preordained moment join hands in a sacred circle and circle jerk into your sleeping eyes. faerie spoo is yellowy green when it goes crusty.

― dainty little, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for that. I may never sleep again.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Dan, FAERIES having SEX. Doesn't that mean the ultimate renunciation of twee?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My father used to tell me when I was a wee tot, that the sandman puts sand in your eyes while you sleep.

― Chris, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Faeries having sex in my eyes while I sleep = indescribably DUD and SCARY.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Please try, try, try to understand, you're a Magic Dan.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, I was trying to sing that song to Joei last night and discovered I'd forgotten how the tune went! (Um, not the "Magic Dan" version.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I think that was EXACTLY what you were singing. While dressed as the Rock.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh great! Now we are going to get all the "faerie sex" googlers now!

― jel --, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

faeries, bangbus, faeires, bangbus, faeries, bangbus. That should do it.

Heh.

― I love faeries, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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