[ColumbusRep]

Thanks for the hot tip!


:: Buys stock in Lip Balm ::

[dakine]

Slow news day....?

[DGray]

Mmmmmm ... Carmex.

I apply it maybe 12-13 times a day. 50-60 seems excessive.

[Carolinamom]

The author seems addicted to drivel.

[Born Conservative]

This story deserves a Drudge siren...

[cloud8]

My favorite lip balm addict also chewed on ice. She'd go through several trays a day. I also had to keep her in Watermelon Bubblicious. Last I heard she'd given all that up and was running triathlons...

[Arkie2]

I've got a name for the addiction. Embalming.

[Recovering Hermit]

Tingling sphincter bump.

[Gabz]

Now I've heard EVERYTHING....................sheesh.

[Nita Nupress]

Thanks for posting this. Someone in my life is a lip-balm fanatic, even to the extent that he pulls the tube out in public, which I just don't understand. I've often thought of lip-balm as being addictive. I mean, what would make a normally-macho guy do something that looks like he's applying lipstick? It MUST be addictive.

For all you male FReepers out there who put on lip-balm in public, please go to the men's room or something. A man publicly applying a substance to his lips from a lipstick-style tube is equivalent to a woman publicly scratching herself as if she has jock itch. It just doesn't look right. LOL!

[Allegra]

My addictions need to be a little exciting. I like peeling paint chips off of walls and munching on them. Mmmmmmm.....

Only the leaded paint will do, though. The more modern kind is too wimpy and doesn't pack enough punch.

(Yes, I'm just kidding....)

[IronJack]

I suspect it's an oral fixation not unlike gum chewing or in some cases, cigarette smoking. I've seen the phenomenon and wondered about it.

[martin_fierro]

My little nephew is WAY into the flavored stuff.

I keep warning him that his lips are gonna get so soft that his whole head is gonna implode.

[mikrofon]

Ingredients like camphor and menthol give lips a tingly rush
The latest product from the EIB Store -- Rush Lip Balm

[shezza]

Oh, those perilous addictions.

Jack Butler: I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they're great... and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn't enough. You're out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads, Ken. That's serious.

[Woman on Caroline Street]

It's a gateway drug. Yup. That's it. One day chap stick, the next day, HEROIN.

Can you imagine the "Interventions" show they'd have for that (lip balm...heroin's already been done)?