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The air then passes down the back of your throat into the trachea say: TRAY-kee-uh , or windpipe, on its way to the lungs. Your nose is also a two-way street. When you exhale the old air from your lungs, the nose is the main way for the air to leave your body. But your nose is more than a passageway for air.

The nose also warms, moistens, and filters the air before it goes to the lungs. This membrane warms up the air and moistens it. The mucous membrane makes mucus, that sticky stuff in your nose you might call snot. Mucus captures dust, germs, and other small particles that could irritate your lungs. If you look inside your nose, you will also see hairs that can trap large particles, like dirt or pollen.

If something does get trapped in there, you can probably guess what happens next. You sneeze. Sneezes can send those unwelcome particles speeding out of your nose at mph! Further back in your nose are even smaller hairs called cilia say: SILL-ee-uh that you can see only with a microscope. The cilia move back and forth to move the mucus out of the sinuses and back of the nose. Cilia can also be found lining the air passages, where they help move mucus out of the lungs. The nose allows you to make scents of what's going on in the world around you.

Just as your eyes give you information by seeing and your ears help you out by hearing, the nose lets you figure out what's happening by smelling.

It does this with help from many parts hidden deep inside your nasal cavity and head. Olfactory is a fancy word that has to do with smelling. The olfactory epithelium contains special receptors that are sensitive to odor molecules that travel through the air. These receptors are very small — there are about 10 million of them in your nose! I remember some of the cereal boxes had a fold-out back, with comic strip-type stories and puzzles and things like that.

I seem to remember small newsprint comics being in some of the boxes too. Can you help me, or am I completely bonkers? It was probably around ' I was born in '55, and I was old enough to read the boxes and comics. Meet Twinkles, early Sixties star of small screen and cereal boxes! Queries like this make me deliriously happy, which indicates the puerile level of my intelligence, my complete unwillingness to admit to being an adult, or both.

Cecil Adams and "Straight Dope," move over: I was on a mission. I wast -- uh -- spent an entire afternoon on the Internet researching the answer. The moment I read this letter, I could picture the cartoon -- definitely a non- Disney , non- Warner Bros. I punched him for being so stupid, then was punished for hitting him. King Leonardo's sidekick was Odie Cologne , who was a skunk.

Neither of them are to be confused with Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har-har , who were part of Hanna-Barbera 's stable of imagination-free cartoons. The clarity with which the image of this elephant rose to mind was astonishing. I could picture the animation style clearly -- broad strokes, pastels, and a contemporary twist, not the airbrush sheen of Harveytoons nor the juvenile simplicity of Hanna-Barbera. Or could this be Silly Sidney the Elephant?

And why did Tennessee Tuxedo come to mind? Okay, so the couch in question was in HIS house and it was HIS birthday party, but those points are inconsequential to the nonsensical phrase he just uttered.

He asked us where that phrase came from Neither did my aunt and uncle who were sitting on the other couch, nor my aunt nor cousin happened to be unfortunately in the room at the time of the disturbance. Apparently, the saying is said by Twinkle's the Magic Elephant, who was a part of the King Leonardo and His Short Subjects cartoon show which ran in the early sixties.

So, on his 60th Birthday, he all of a sudden remembered a quote from a cartoon he watched before his teenage years