The famous image of a nose scrawled all over the world in graffiti, a running joke or a profound statement that something has gone off?
\nIs it based on one specific person’s nose or is it based on an amalgam of every kind of nose; an everynose?
\nThe answer is, of course, “no one knows.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The famous image of a nose scrawled all over the world in graffiti, a running joke or a profound statement that something has gone off? Is it based on one specific person’s nose or is it based on an amalgam of every kind of nose; an everynose? 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