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I just gleeked all over the place

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Jun 26, 2005
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I know. It's creeping me out. It always happens when I yawn and neglect to cover my mouth. I'm sitting here in the library studying for my midterm and as I'm leaning over my binder I suddenly yawn. I don't react fast enough AND I'm far too lazy to cover my mouth, as my hands are underneath the table, so I yawn open-mouthed. As hard as I try to keep my mouth relatively closed during the whole yawning process, I can't manage to do it, and I think the clenching of my facial muscles actually exacerbated the gleeking effect... then...

BOOM! Pssshhhht! Dammit! What the ****?! I inconspicuously wipe the page of my binder free of the hundreds of tiny saliva droplets coating the text. I glance to the left and right of me, relieved that no one noticed my brief moment of serpentine behaviour. Then I decide, to hell with this, I'm writing on MR about it.

So who else manages to do this from time to time? It's completely natural but I haven't caught anyone else doing it ever since I noticed myself doing it (when I entered school and began yawning far more often). Can anyone here do it voluntarily?

For those who have no clue what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleeking
 
Compile 'em all said:
what is gleeking?
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Squirting saliva out of your mouth. It isn't spitting, it's coming directly from your salivary glands underneath your tongue.

I wanted to be able to do it intentionally, but couldn't figure out how. Some of my classmates could, though.
 
I used to know a chap who could do it on command. Freaky. If you ticked him off, he'd look at you and open his mouth like a snake to warn you not to do/say/act that way again...
 
Since we're all built the same I'd hazard a guess that everyone does it. I'm just surprised there's a name for it.
 
this thread is still better than the "when you lost virginity thread" :D it happens in class for me all the time and until now there actually is a word for it :p
 
tMac85 said:
haha, maybe i am tired, but i just laughed out loud. its like walking in and seeing/hearing something you shouldnt have.:eek:

i know, its just gleeking, but ghalls post made me crack up.
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Just wait for the frump or verp threads.
 
Is this like when you open up your mouth and then like 3-5 drops of "spit"? I guess comes out, like sorta like it got range... if I explained that correctly..that happens to me plenty of times in school...its just mine is small/clear so nobody really notices it.
 
I can do it! I can do it!

It was a sick highschool thing.......we used to gleek on each other.....now that i think about it....yuck.

Yup............I can still do it. Especially after a Starburst.
 
tMac85 said:
haha, maybe i am tired, but i just laughed out loud. its like walking in and seeing/hearing something you shouldnt have.:eek:

i know, its just gleeking, but ghalls post made me crack up.
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ahhaha same here....only because i felt the same way but then decided to turn back around and post...
 
I had never heard of "gleeking" until this thread, nor did I know it was popular in high school.

To be honest, I thought this thread was going to be about something entirely completely different.
 
If you can't cover your mouth you should automatically without thinking point your mouth at your shoulder, I very very rarely don't cover my mouth when sneezing and I have no problem forcing my mouth closed when I yawn.
 
That happens to me like once every couple of months...I never knew it had a name and I'd always thought it was just spit trapped in my cheek or something.
 
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