In Case You've Ever Wondered...

**Uncouthness Disclaimer** While I normally refrain from posting certain uncouth topics in my blog, this little gem my son mentioned offhandedly while buttering some toast this evening was just too good not to share. He reported it as though he'd heard it as a fact from his science teacher.

This just in.

Word on the street (and on good authority of the fifth grade students at my son's lunch table) is that they have now discovered the cause of Pinkeye, that bane to elementary schools the world over.

Apparently, if somebody, um, passes gas (insert more popular term here) into a pillow, and someone else lays down face first in that same pillow immediately afterwards, that person will contract pinkeye.

So now you know.