Australia - In terms of rare collections, this one gets top marks. An Australian man has made a habit of collecting his navel lint, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Australian librarian started “harvesting” his fluff in 1984, at a youth hostel in Brisbane. After 26 years, the complete collection now weighs 22.1 grams, or .77 ounces. “I became curious about how much navel fluff one person could generate (enough to stuff a cushion, maybe?), and the only way to find for sure was to collect it and see,” he wrote on his blog feargod.net. “Millions of people collect stamps and coins, but as far as I know nobody else collects navel fluff. That makes my collection unique!”  Each day, the 45-year-old plucks the lint from his navel before he gets into the shower, and stores it in a clay pot. At the end of the year, he adds the harvest to his main collection, which is housed by color in glass jars and then labeled by date. “Over the last 20-plus years my navel has accumulated an average of 3.03 milligrams of fluff each day,” Barker wrote. “I doubt that many people have done this, so it’s not known whether the volume of fluff generated by my navel is any indication of what is normal.”

Oh, sure.  Go ahead and mock this guy.  But he’s the best in the world at what he does.  The BEST.  In the WORLD.  And how many people can say that?  He’s the Tom Brady of collecting belly button lint.  What UB is to soft core porn or Dalton is to being a cooler, Barker is to bizarre, worthless, mentally unstable hobbies.  And what’s so wrong with that?  Sure, the haters will be hating.  But they’re just jealous because he’s famous and they’re nobodies.  When it comes to navel fluff expertise, this guy is the top of the pyramid. If some criminal case rests on crap found in someone’s belly button, who is CSI gonna call?  If Earth is under alien attack and belly button lint is the only thing that can save us, who does the president want on the phone?  And if some hot chick just happens to have a navel lint fetish, who exactly do you think she’s going to be banging on a bed of fluff 25 years in the making?  His, that’s who.  So before you go criticizing him, let’s see if you can be the best in the world at anything.

PS.  There’s a 99% chance this guy has a collection of human remains in his basement.