I remember a TV segment about the operation. They basically had his ear off at one point. Really nasty.

If Penn allowed Teller to talk, maybe he could have warned his big buddy not to abuse his body's defenses!

Another earwax story: Penn Jillette cleaned his earwas so obsessively that something nasty started growing and attacking his body. Had to have his head cut open to scrape it out.

try here http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?...ews&StoryID=1064031

I don't get it...(the site is dead, so I can't read the article). Does this mean some people with a different genetic makeup don't have earwax?

cotton bud = "Q-tip"?, yes?

Gross But funny:

My friend Rob Downes lived in a house of practical jokesters while going to college.

Rob noticed that soldering flux paste looked a lot like earwax. He found an near-empty table candle -- the kind that consists of a colored glass globe with a plastic mesh on the outside -- filled it with flux, and fitted it with a wick. He and a housemate worked up a routine to convince visitors that it was (the other guy's) personal _earwax_ candle.