# Say that I had a large bag of teeth .  . .

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-that-i-had-a-large-bag-of-teeth/559902 "2010-11-08T14:22:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-that-i-had-a-large-bag-of-teeth/559902/21 "2010-11-09T11:07:12Z")

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> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> Oooh. Gruesome.
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> There are skin stretching techniques used to help victims of severe burns - the scarred skin tends to shrink as it heals. It involves placing balloon-like sacs under the skin and inflating them over time with saline, I believe. Seems to me it would be technically possible to grow yourself a swath of extra skin and harvest it this way.
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> Eeygh.

No. The artist in me commands that I go on a massively unhealthy binge diet of every item that can be found in a Wal Mart’s frozen breakfast foods section, starting with [chocolate chip pancakes and sausage on a stick](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_TVVDdbRQQfg/SCxo5rN7xbI/AAAAAAAABRw/dj7Ig9y1_9Q/1196540314171.jpg). After a year or two of this, with my weight ballooning up to 400 pounds, I shall then go on the [Subway diet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSzw5XyVQfY) and drop to 180. And _that_ is where I shall find all the additional skin I need to create my own set of lampshades as well as a photo album of my journey, naturally to be bound in my own skin.

As I say, it’s the artist in me.

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