I had no idea that there were soooo many people with stinky belly buttons. But, I have quite a few responses to this post. I kinda expected a lot of comments on my poontang but not my stinky abdomen hole.

In the interest of the comfort, social status, and support of my fellow members of The Stinky Belly Button Club…..this post is for you!

You say that it’s not your belly button that you are googling? You are doing an act of kindness for a friend, loved one, neigbor or co-worker? Yeah….right! Well, here’s is a great gift idea for your “buddy”…….

Belly Button Lint Remover……

Take a long bead and stick a piece of pipe-cleaner through it, make a tiny loop at one end so it won’t come out of the bead.

At the other end, make the pipe cleaner into a circle and attach the end into the top of the bead. (So it looks like a tiny toilet brush). Stick it into a small zip bag.

Print the words, “Genuine Belly Button Lint Remover” on white cardstock, print it out and fold it, then staple it to the top of the ziplock bag.  Here’s a couple of little poems that you could include:

Don’t mean to be blunt,
but take a hint. . .
This little brush is
for belly button lint!
———-

And, if you are really disgusted by their belly odor or are dealing with clueless people, I wrote another little ditty….

If you can’t take a hint

Then learn from this ditty

Your belly button scent

Smells downright shitty!

 .  This gift can be given anonymously thru the mail or just by leaving it on the desk of your co-worker. If the offending belly button owner goes to church with you, you can slyly stick it in the hymnal that they will be using. 

In the event that the SBBC (Stinky Belly Button Club) goes global, here are names used by people in other parts of the world. This is just so we will know what they are referring to when they post about “my knob” or “my hub”.

The belly button has many names, including the fairly technical term “navel”. “Navel” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “nafela”.

The Romans called the belly button the “umbilicus”.

The Greeks called it the “omphalos”. So if you add the Greek word “tomê” (meaning “cutting”), you get “omphalotomy”. This word means “cutting of the umbilical cord”.

Omphalos also means “knob” or “hub”. The Greeks erected a holy stone, or fetish stone, in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi (on the slopes of Mount Parnassus near the Gulf of Corinth). They called this rounded conical stone the Omphalos (or Navel), as they thought that it marked the exact centre of their universe.

The original inhabitants of Easter Island called it “Rapa Nui” (“Great Rapa”) or “Te Pito te Henua” (“Navel of the World

One-eyed Mabel (would be one-eyed nabel in German)

poopachek … Hungarian 

Mistress Smelly, Stinky and Kinky….white trash dominatrix (OK, I made that one up).

If you have another name, please feel free to add it to the list.

SBBC Activities…..

Naval Gazing….

The phrase “contemplating one’s own navel” has the ring of a long and honourable history behind it. The word “omphaloskepsis” (also called “omphaloscopy”), meaning “contemplating one’s navel as an aid to meditation”, sounds like it is thousands of years old. “Skepsis” is a Greek word meaning “the act of looking, or inquiry”. However, the Merriam-Webster web site “Word of the Day” column claims that omphaloskepsis was invented only in the 1920s.

This was not the first time people tried to find enlightenment in the navel. In the past, an “omphalopsychic” was one of a group of mystics who gazed at their own navel so as to induce a hypnotic reverie. The Greek Christian monks of Mount Athos used a specific method of navel contemplation called Hesychasm, to maximise the divine enlightenment. This method would presumably have given them many different insights into divine glory.

But another navel divination method, “omphalomancy”, gave only one specific item of information. It predicted how many children a woman would give birth to, by counting the number of knots (bumps in the fleshy plaiting) in her umbilical cord when she was born.

That was from the Great Bellybutton .

Enjoy these great quotes about belly button fluff that I found while researching belly buttons.

BBF uses

storage: “My friend collects his boyfriend’s and stores it in his teddy bear.”

clothing: “I’m saving mine to knit a jacket.”

“yeah yeah”: “I’m collecting it for my male pattern baldness . . . ”

homecraft: “I reckon we should establish Belly Button Lint collection stations, and make doonas and pillows from it. Maybe we could establish a cottage industry, and have people with spinning wheels recreating cotton and other fabrics from the lint.”

firestarting: “It’s useful as tinder when out in the wilderness.”

lighting: “Could Belly Button Lint be combined with ear wax to make a candle? This could go some way towards solving the energy crisis.”

So, let’s bring to order our first meeting of the one and only official Stinky Belly Button Club!!!! Membership is FREE but you must have a smelly belly to qualify.