'When your earlobes blister, " firefighters sometimes joke, "you're too close to the flames.

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The facial decay was inconsistent: if the nostrils and underlying cartilage had rotted away, the earlobes would be long gone, too.

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This would allow for that critical visible hairline, neck and earlobes.

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The PX3s easily stretched and swiveled to fit the inordinately large heads of Engadget editors, comfortably enveloping our earlobes without making us feel like as if we were being juiced.

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Just as long as you don't have fuzzy earlobes.

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