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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-386/
- Published: 2021-06-26T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-26T09:41:02.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

> She said she remembered playing tiddlywinks with her seven brothers and sisters and as an 8-year-old took the game on a tangent by putting one piece up each nostril and “blowing them out to see how they would go”.

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Mary McCarthy had an operation on her nose to remove a tiddlywink.

> “One time I accidentally inhaled one instead of blowing it out, and I was a bit too scared to tell my mother, so I didn’t. I remember being terrified at the time, thinking ‘where it has gone’.”  
>  
> Not one to complain, she put the accident at the back of her mind and carried on with life.  
>  
> Stuff

[Read the full article here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/125567224/tiddlywink-stuck-up-christchurch-womans-nose-for-37-years?ref=goodoil.news) then comment on it on *The BFD.*