Help some thermal paste got in cpu socket

Lumberjack_64

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So while rubbing off the thermal paste from the CPU for the replacement of my stock cooler I took the CPU out to clean the sides of the heat spreader but a little bit of the thermal compound fell on the motherboard socket and a bit got in a hole or two. How can I remove it? Darn I sucks at PC installations :(. Here's a picture http://imgur.com/3WcZu3s
 

Lumberjack_64

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I already rubbed it which kinda made it worse but I still tried your method, it got some out but most of it is still there