[HN Gopher] An Oral History of the Time Six Doctors Swallowed Le...
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       An Oral History of the Time Six Doctors Swallowed Lego Heads
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-01-27 06:45 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | gumby wrote:
       | I once got into an argument with a coworker about the non-
       | reactivity and biocompatibility of PTFE (Teflon). What a fool: I
       | had worked with the stuff on medical devices at a previous
       | startup.
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       | In any case out of annoyance I swallowed some teflon plumbing
       | tape. A few days later I had to take an international flight and,
       | ta-da, excreted it in the aircraft toilet. That was lucky as I
       | had a convenient metal shelf and not a bowl of water. As I had
       | predicted it was intact and perfectly white.
       | 
       | I sent my colleague a photo from my phone. He was annoyed when I
       | got home.
       | 
       | PS: I had been carrying around a cheap disposable pen for this
       | purpose. I stole it from his desk.
        
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