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#1888589 - 01/21/14 05:18 PM
Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots
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Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots Last Thursday, parents of students at Portsmouth Middle School in Rhode Island were sent an email warning them about the dangers of snorting crushed up Smarties candy (you know, that chalky-sweet staple of elementary school Halloween parties?).
But here’s the bad part: while it won’t get you high, Smartie-snorting can cause lung infections, bloody noses, and allergic reactions. Oh yeah, it can also invite nasal maggots.
That last horrifying possibility happens when the crushed and rotting candy stays lodged in the nasal cavity long enough to attract flies into the nostril. The fly can hang around just long enough to lay eggs, which typically come in batches of 75-150 eggs for a common housefly and hatch within a day of having been laid. Believe it or not, the presence of nose-maggots even has a medical name: nasal myiasis. Parents have been warned to watch for kids obsessively scratching their noses as an indication that children may have maggots in their noses. Presumably, parents should also pay attention to whether kids are picking wriggling, white boogers.
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#1888598 - 01/21/14 05:25 PM
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#1888620 - 01/21/14 05:37 PM
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Wow! Dale Butcher in the sixth grade convinced me snorting Smarties would make me smarter. Dumb me believed him and I had the worst burning sensation for hours. Fortunately, I never had maggots growing up in there.
::shudders::
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#1888621 - 01/21/14 05:37 PM
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:crosses "snorting smarties" off the bucket list:
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#1888623 - 01/21/14 05:39 PM
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Fortunately, I never had maggots growing up in there.
::shudders:: Are you sure? 
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#1888638 - 01/21/14 06:07 PM
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But Pixie Stix are still okay to snort, right?
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#1888644 - 01/21/14 06:27 PM
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I think I'd know if a fly flew up my nose...but it does put a new meaning to snorting a gnat up your nose!  About snorting candy...ommmm...I don't even wanna go there. Someone really got some definitions and nicknames really, really confused! nose candy = meth. 
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#1888666 - 01/21/14 06:44 PM
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That's just nasty! This would not even have been contemplated when I was a child.....
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#1888833 - 01/21/14 10:26 PM
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That gives Candy Crush a whole new meaning.
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#1888841 - 01/21/14 10:43 PM
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#1889022 - 01/22/14 04:58 PM
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Let the Dummies snort the Smarties as much as they want.
My Dad would call that "thinning the herd".
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#1889037 - 01/22/14 05:16 PM
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...and the worms ate into his brain.
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