By Natasha Lomas
Published: Thursday 29 November 2007
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Name
Ralph
Location
Scratchville
Occupation
Back rubber
Comment
"enough dead skin cells....to fill a tea-cup"
Excuse me whilst I snort!
How big is this tea-cup? Is it a British standard size tea-cup, of 10 fl. oz.? Or a girly USA 8 fl.oz.? Is it made of bone-china?
Is this output of just the one human, or 6,000 million of them?
Who colected all the skin cells up and how many cups were actually filled?
Is it a slow news day in Silicon towers?
How much does 10 fl. oz of dead skin cells weigh? At standard Earth type gravity at sea level of course.
How many of these microbes, are actually feeding on my dead skin and are they likely to be injurious to my health?
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