Saturday, April 15, 2006

QUESTION OF THE DAY

How long do you think it would take to eat and pass what you are wearing right now? All of it.

8 comments:

La Joconde said...

I would rather be naked...
I just wear cotton things and no shoes. But I can't do it to my stomach! I can't imagine do a such thing. I can't answer.

Rocket Surgeon, Phd said...

I think this question pretty much boils down to three elements:
My zipper
My buttons
and my shoes.

Those three elements would be incredibly hard to digest but could be done in small doses. My shirt, socks, pants and boxers I would shred up and dice up then mix into a heavy chili and choke it down.

Twice daily i would fold a zipper spike into a ball of peanut butter and send her down 20 bubble.

The souls of my shoes i would make into a shavings and swallow in the increments my stomach would allow me.

Regrettably my Khakis have 5 buttons. methinks these would be a bear to pass. I would gauge the length it would take to successfully swallow all of my zipper and then staggard the 5 buttons along that calender.

Ultimately I would require 40 days to accomplish this feat. Well 41.
I would need to purge at the end.

Also, i read once online about a man who ate an entire piper cub airplane over the span of like 10 years. Metal and all.

I will try and find the link.

Rocket Surgeon, Phd said...

I found it. No wonder those French are so surly:

From CNN:

The beautiful French village of Villars de Lans is home to a man with an appetite for things that have nothing to do with the food for which his country is famous.

His name is Michel Lotito, but he is better known as Monsieur Mangetout, a man whose work is eating.

Mangetout, as his name implies ("mange" means to eat, "tout" means "all") eats almost anything. His biggest meal to date is an airplane, but he has a taste for such other delicacies as bicycles and TV sets.

"The biggest thing that I've ever eaten -- which gained me a place in the Guinness Book of Records -- is a plane. It was a Cessna, model number 150," Mangetout says. "I've eaten 18 bicycles, just as many television sets, supermarket trolleys."


A 'light' snack for Mangetout
He adds, "I've even eaten a coffin! It was empty; no one was inside."

Mangetout says he simply has to concentrate when dining on such oddities. He eats, digests and passes these items naturally, and does not suffer from side-effects.

He says that if his brain tells him to eat something, his stomach allows him to digest it.

'He's basically a normal guy'
This strange pastime of his is not just a hobby. He gets paid to eat odd things, and earlier this year made a guest appearance at the London Auto Show.

Nevertheless, his appetite is the result of compulsive behavior that began when he started eating bits of metal, glass and even poisonous materials from television sets when he was 9.

Dr. Bernard Morzol has long studied Mangetout, and says that as long as he's known him, he has never suffered from any hemorrhages. A recent X-ray of his stomach shows the remnants of several pieces of metal and a chain.

"We've tried to study him from all points of view," Morzol says. "We've tried to understand this phenomenon, these antidotes created by his body, but he's basically a normal guy. He gets sick like everybody else, but the illnesses are not related to the fact that he can absorb metal."


It must have been something he ate
Doctors found that Mangetout's stomach lining is twice as thick as a normal stomach lining, which explains why he is able to digest these things. The doctors concluded that his rare condition must have developed when he was still in his mother's womb.

Also enjoys a regular meal
Mangetout enjoys the attention, and the trips his compulsion has won him. And his companion, Marcelle, says Mangetout also enjoys a regular meal.

"I'm a pretty good cook," she says. "I make delicious meals that are well-prepared and well-balanced. Evening meals are sacred. When he chooses his menu outside of the house, then that is his business what he eats."

La Joconde said...

I was aware of it. Aware and ashamed.
I forgot his unforgettable name "Monsieur Mangetout".
I watched his story on tv.
I have searched on the guinness site but Job had been too fast.
I know his village. There is a skating rink there...

Anonymous said...

Unless he ate it.

I only have one button and one zipper, but overall, I think Job did a good analysis on this one.

barefootkangaroo said...

I would burn my clothes and mix the ashes in with a casserole, cake or something. Maybe I'd add water and drink the stuff. Reducing them to ashes would be key. That much I know.

Rocket Surgeon, Phd said...

Good thinking, but I think perhaps you're increasing the toxicity by burning them. Try burning your shoes. You got problems putting that mess down.

Steve said...

This may have been the best question ever.