I’m terrible at math, but I’m gonna say it should, as claimed, grow to 18 or 24 inches across. Unless this is one of those obvious-seeming problems that exists to trip up the numerically challenged among us.
Yeah, yeah, if I had a dollar for every time I’ve been told that . . .
Don’t worry, babe, that’s supposed to happen. Slimy is fun.
Are you sure your colon can fit them all?
That’s assuming they give him the benefit of the doubt.
“Surrrrre you swallowed it.”
Inigo, my man, you’re gonna make the ass hall of fame. They’ll be talking about you for years.
" . . . Yeah, we had to import that proctologist from Geneva!!"
You have a choice to make here, Inigo.
A child’s toy, or hard science.
YOU be the decider.
Er, did I mention the flashlight?
Indeed, a live octopus.
Just imagine checking into the ER:
My name is Inigo Montoya. I swallowed an expanding sponge octopus. Prepare to call the producers of the Discovery Channel’s 99 Strangest Things Removed From Human Bodies.
Doesn’t look like 600% to me. Four times tops.
No, no, the brown one is the original, and it grows to a size with the same ratio as that of the little yellow one to the big yellow one. I think you’re seeing the big yellow one as the original and the brown one as the final. It is not so.
I think I’ve heard of kids swallowing these, and they expanded in some way (like in the throat) which caused them to suffocate and die.
Might be an urban legend, but I wouldn’t do it.
Expanding octopus, Pop Rocks and Coke.
First man in space without a rocket.
Yeah, but that’s a ray, not an octopus. Totally different dynamic. It’s like comparing apples to oranges, in an expanding-aquatic-animal-toy kind of way.
Revtim: if it takes up to 10 days to reach full expansion, I don’t think Inigo needs to worry about it so much on the way down, as on the way out.
As fascinating as the possibilities of consuming expandable toys are, I find myself flabbergasted at the notion of some guy attempting to ebay something he bought at Walmart. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? If I wanted this toy, why would I not just buy it from Walmart myself, and save the shipping cost?
Veering back on topic, I suggest that it is possible that stomach acid might bring the creature to life. If so, an eerie similarity to Alien ensues…
You’d probably live, but it would be a sucker bet.
Two friends of mine did exactly what you are proposing a few years ago, although I believe it was not an octopus but some other expaning animal. AFAIK neither experienced any serious side effects.
Oh sure, swallow an expanding octopus on the say-so of a tentacle beast.
[Hendrix]
…Scuse me, while I eat this toy…
[/Hendrix]
For fuck’s sake don’t eat it. I’d hate for this to turn out to be one of those ‘told u i wuz hardcore’ moments.
Don’t listen to him, Inigo. It’s your duty as a man of science to eat that Octopus.
Good grief, sir. You truly are evil. I can’t help but admire you for it.