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Entry: Snotsicle
originally posted by MacGyver

[last edit 1/23/2006 11:39 PM by FoxTwoFoxTwo - edited 4 times]

Snotsicles (boogar stalactites, butt-snot) are the dangling, jiggly slime mold formations frequently seen coating the ceiling and features of sewer tunnels and occasionally in natural caves. The exact composition of the snotsicle is open to debate, but all parties involved have strongly concluded that they are disgusting and that contact should be avoided. They are likely made up of condensed airborne sewage particles combined with mysterious gasses. Max Action is believed to have first used the word snotsicle to describe these disgusting formations.

Travel through sanitary sewers without some type of head protection (raincoat with hood, bandana, stocking cap, etc.) will commonly result in a hair-gel-like effect caused by raw snotsicle material draping through your hair and then drying into a hard, crisp substance.

Ladders and the underside of manhole covers in sewers will usually be thickly coated with drippy slime mold, making sewering without gloves and a raincoat gross to say the least. Uncovered hair will inevitably become coated with snotsicle material, which will later dry into a thin, flaky, crusty coating when exposed to enough air to evaporate the water out of the slime. The result is very much akin to thickly hairspray-treated hair, except for the fragile nature of the coating (it cracks and crumbles apart more easily than more conventionally treated hair), the odd smell, and the texture that is both greasy and gritty with mystery particulate.

The consistency of snotsicle matter is similar to very thick phlegm. Darktreader has likened them to cured jello coated with oil. The outermost layer is slippery, wet, and shiny. Just beneath this is a rubbery (but still fragile) substance. Most snotsicles will jiggle when you blow on them. Some will detach themselves from the ceiling with just the air current and stress caused by a passing explorers, landing on the poor soul that happens to be passing below at the time.

A very likely answer to what composes snotsicles is simple slime-algae. From "research" in a marine fish tank has lead me to believe that these structures may be colonies of single cell algae that live off of the decaying materials commonly found in such sewers.

Snotsicles
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An extra long snotsicle
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Sewer tunnel with a well-coated ceiling
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Snotsicles in the foreground, and stalactites in the back
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See also: sanitary sewer

[edit: added consistency analysis data and hairspray similarity]

[edit: added possible composition answer]
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