# Help a total feeb.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 18, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916 "2000-07-18T00:36:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/1 "2000-07-18T00:36:05Z")
I just did something really stupid.
I’ve been freezing stuff with some Falcon ™ brand Dust-Off like, all day. All in all, a fun activity. Dust-Off is a compressed air product that, when you tip it upside down, it sprays out a super cold substance.
A few hours ago, I decided that the substance was highly compressed C02. I froze a huge chunk on the desk, then picked it up and put it in my mouth. Crackly popping noises ensued.
An hour or so ago, I got a glass of Sunny D and attempted to “carbonate” it. Didn’t work so well.
Then I drank the Sunny D.
Now my teeth feel funky. Very funky.
I looked at the can and apparently the super cold stuff is actually difloroethane.
Am I going to die? Are my teeth going to fall out? Will I cough up blood and have convulsions?
And how much, in precise terms, of a total feeb moron am I for doing this?
–Tim
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### Author:  [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/2 "2000-07-18T00:38:32Z")
Uh, why don’t you call the local center for poison control in the next few minutes? It’s in the front of your phone book.
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### Author:  [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/3 "2000-07-18T00:42:34Z")
and take a look at the label before you decide what’s in a product next time. Even if they don’t tell you exactly what it is, they’re usually required to put on something like a warning label, which will give you a brief overview of what could happen.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/4 "2000-07-18T00:46:37Z")
[http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~jsmith/MSDS/FALCON%20DUST-OFF.htm](http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~jsmith/MSDS/FALCON%20DUST-OFF.htm)
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/5 "2000-07-18T00:52:13Z")
Ah, Manny, you know you’re my favorite mod.
Seriously though, thanks for the link.
Apparently, it works as an anesthetic, if anything.
There were no warnings for ingestion, only eye and skin contact.
My teeth feel normal again. They were probably just numbed.
Okay, commence with telling me what a total moron I am now.
–Tim
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/6 "2000-07-18T00:54:40Z")
I hope he phoned already!
For more general info:
[http://wellness.ucdavis.edu/safety\_info/poison\_prevention/poison\_book/](http://wellness.ucdavis.edu/safety_info/poison_prevention/poison_book/)
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/7 "2000-07-18T00:56:31Z")
And BTW:
[Homer]Mmmmm! Poison![/Homer]
☹
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/8 "2000-07-18T01:14:36Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Homer \*
> \*\*I just did something really stupid.
>
> snip
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> Then I drank the Sunny D.
>
> snip
> And how much, in precise terms, of a total feeb moron am I for doing this?–Tim \*\*
Oh… get over yourself and welcome to the “Oh My God What Have I Done Now!?” Club. I’m not just a member, I’m the President and you are granted one extra special, emergency session admission. Be careful though the “Darwin Award” is next.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/9 "2000-07-18T02:24:16Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Homer \*
> \*\*Okay, commence with telling me what a total moron I am now.
>
> –Tim \*\*
You’re a total moron. Total, total, total.
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/10 "2000-07-18T02:50:50Z")
At least you fessed up and got advice and help.
But yes, my dear. You are a total feeb.
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### Author:  [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/11 "2000-07-18T04:24:28Z")
Homer, if you die, you will have the funniest obituary!
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/12 "2000-07-18T08:02:36Z")
Well, I’m still alive approximately 8 hour later.
I think I’ll make it.
–Tim
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### Author:  [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2000, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/13 "2000-07-18T12:41:29Z")
You still may want to check with a doc. Chlorinated organic compounds can also have long-term effects.
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### Author:  [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-total-feeb/25916/14 "2000-07-19T01:12:02Z")
My guess is that you probably didn’t get enough of it in you to be a problem, and you \* are \* still alive as of a while ago, so you’re probably fine.
That said, from the MSDS on the link, the stuff can decompose into phosgene. Phosgene kills you.
These are the types of things that you use in the fume hood with gloves on in the lab (ok, technically, you’re supposed to do that with damn near everything, but who really bothers?).
[rant] \*\* don’t bloody well ingest them! \*\* [/rant]
Oh yeah, do your teeth glow now? Please say yes; I very much need to be able to say, “yeah, there’s this guy who drank Dust-off, and his teeth glow green.”