Skin
Isn’t skin great? It stops you from dissolving in the rain, it keeps you from leaking and leaving unslightly smears wherever you sit (or lean), as well as protecting your clothes. And it’s so clever; it stretches on your bendy bits, it heals when you make holes in it, it makes interesting wrinkles on your face (and other parts), it gets thicker when you use a particular part of it a lot, it adapts to your local environment and colours itself accordingly in sunlight, it blends seamlessly into your finger-and-toenails, it lets hair through it without losing waterproofness. People should make clothes from it. It truly is a great organ. Long live skin.
posted by badgerbadger @ 5:40 pm
3 Comments:
The trouble with the interesting wrinkles is that they get a bit too interesting as time goes on. Now I can remove the wrinkles from my clothes with a cool iron - heck, some of them are even drip dry. Why can't someone invent drip dry skin?
Someone did. Skin *does* drip-dry... plus it has an impressive underlying heat encouraging evaporation.
*snore*
Oh! It also tingles when someone else touches it, makes your hairs stand on end when you're cold or scared, and changes colour when the sun shines on it.
Can you tell I've been bored this morning?!
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