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| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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If he had eaten one, or both together, he would have been OK My first puzzle for a long time. Should be a quicky | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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Hi Damien... so the usual questions: Are both "he's" the same person? If so, is he a human adult male? ALive? It implies that he had not eaten any and therefore is not OK. Is this right? "one" and "both" - does this refer to what you would classify as "normal" food (which we would probably usually eat)? Does this refer to anything of animal/vegetable origin? SOmething else | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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By Alizon (Alizon) : Hi Damien... Hi Alizon Are both "he's" the same person? Yes If so, is he a human adult male? Human teenage male ALive? Yes It implies that he had not eaten any and therefore is not OK. Is this right? No. FA "one" and "both" - does this refer to what you would classify as "normal" food (which we would probably usually eat)? No Does this refer to anything of animal/vegetable origin? No SOmething else? Yes | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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Is the FA that he had not eaten any? Or that he is not OK? Are"one" and "both" the same type of thing? Mineral? Manmade? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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By Alizon Is the FA that he had not eaten any? This Or that he is not OK? Are "one" and "both" the same type of thing? Yes Mineral? Yes Manmade? Yope | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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So he had eaten some, at least one. Correct? Did it cause him serious health problems? Is the thing he ate valuable? Would you eat it? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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By Alizon So he had eaten some, at least one. Correct? Yes. He ate two Did it cause him serious health problems? Yes Is the thing he ate valuable? No Would you eat it? Definitely not | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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Was the problem that he did not eat them together? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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As Alizon has noted, there seems to be a timing issue with the eating... Are they the same? Just to clarify, were they intended for human consumption? Animal consumption? Is his motivation for eating them relevant? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Alizon Was the problem that he did not eat them together? Yope Tim A. Dowd Are they the same? Yes Just to clarify, were they intended for human consumption? Animal consumption? Neither Is his motivation for eating them relevant? No | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Perhaps a better statement would have been "If he had eaten just one, or both together, he would have been OK" | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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So, he ate one, then there was a pause, and then he ate the other one. Correct? Is it relevant how long the pause was? It seems that eating No. 2 would have mitigated /annulled the effect of eating No.1. Correct? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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By Alizon (Alizon) on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 11:56 pm: So, he ate one, then there was a pause, and then he ate the other one. Correct? Yes Is it relevant how long the pause was? YES It seems that eating No. 2 would have mitigated /annulled the effect of eating No.1. Correct? No | ||
| Shawn Franchi (Doctapeppa)
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If he had eaten both together, would he have been ok? | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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The pause - did it last seconds? minutes? days? weeks? months? years? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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By Shawn Franchi (Doctapeppa) on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:46 am: If he had eaten both together, would he have been ok? Yes By Alizon (Alizon) on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:46 am: The pause - did it last seconds? minutes? days? weeks? months? years? Somewhere between 3 and 24 hours is most likely | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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Were they inert or did they change when in his body (stomach acids or similar agents?) | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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By Alizon (Alizon) on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:58 am: Were they inert or did they change when in his body (stomach acids or similar agents?) Inert | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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Were they likely to... er... naturally leave his body? If so, was the 3-24 time span relevant in the sense that when he ate No.2., No 1 would already have left his body? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Alizon Were they likely to... er... naturally leave his body? Yes, if.... If so, was the 3-24 time span relevant in the sense that when he ate No.2., No 1 would already have left his body? No, not his body, but... | ||
| Ed Mason (Logician)
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...No. 1 would already have left some relevant part of his body? Is it relevant exactly what these serious health problems were? Am I likely to have this item that he ate in my home? In my school? In an office? Am I likely ever to have seen this item? Is it the case that no.1 'damaged' the man's body in some way? That no.2 worsened it, and therefore created the health problems? Is he likely to die from these health problems? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Ed Mason (Logician) on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:24 am: ...No. 1 would already have left some relevant part of his body? Yes Is it relevant exactly what these serious health problems were? Yes Am I likely to have this item that he ate in my home? Not likely but quite possible In my school? More likely In an office? Less likely Am I likely ever to have seen this item? Yes Is it the case that no.1 'damaged' the man's body in some way? Yope That no.2 worsened it, and therefore created the health problems? No, not like this Is he likely to die from these health problems? He didn't (this was a true event) but would have if not treated | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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Has he some allergy? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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Did they cause a blockage of some kind? Should we determine approximately how far the first had made it through his digestive system? Did it pass out of his stomach? Out of his small intestine? If he had eaten both together, would they have prevented each other from traveling further through his digestive tract? Would the second have (in conjunction with the first) triggered reverse peristals...perestal...made him throw up (if they had been consumed at the same time, I mean)? Is it made of metal? Stone? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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David Burn (Woubit) Has he some allergy? No By Tim A. Dowd (Bodo) on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 03:17 pm: Did they cause a blockage of some kind? No Should we determine approximately how far the first had made it through his digestive system? YES Did it pass out of his stomach? YES Out of his small intestine? NO If he had eaten both together, would they have prevented each other from traveling further through his digestive tract? No Would the second have (in conjunction with the first) triggered reverse peristals...perestal...made him throw up (if they had been consumed at the same time, I mean)? I think I know what you mean.  No Is it made of metal? Yes Stone? No Great questions | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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Was he a sword swallower? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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David Burn (Woubit) Was he a sword swallower? No | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Did his canal perforate? Did he get peritonitis? Did anything get lodged in his appendix? Were the items each 100% metal or just partially metal? Ball bearings? Bullets? Magnets? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Did he swallow 2 magnets? Would the two connected magnets have been too small to enter his appendix and would therefore have passed out of his gut, but one by itself became lodged? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Simon Downham (Beroean) on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 02:27 pm: Did his canal perforate? YES Did he get peritonitis? Yes Did anything get lodged in his appendix? No Were the items each 100% metal or just partially metal? Ball bearings? Bullets? Magnets? See below Did he swallow 2 magnets? YES!! Would the two connected magnets have been too small to enter his appendix and would therefore have passed out of his gut, but one by itself became lodged? No | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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I see - I think. After a delay in swallowing the two magnets, they were attracted to each other whilst their location was in different parts of the gut? This caused pressure against the wall of part of the small intestine and lead to a perforation? | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Simon Downham (Beroean) on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 09:33 pm: I see - I think. After a delay in swallowing the two magnets, they were attracted to each other whilst their location was in different parts of the gut? Yes This caused pressure against the wall of part of the small intestine and lead to a perforation? Correct. Well done! ********** SPOILER ********** For reasons known only to himself our hero, a teenage boy, swallowed two small but strong magnets. His big error was to swallow them several hours apart, by which time the first had left the stomach and was navigating the rest of the alimentary tract. Time and peristalsis combined to inevitably bring the magnets into adjoining loops of small intestine. The magnets locked tightly together, inducing an ischaemic necrosis of the intervening intestinal walls. A bowel perforation ensued, with life-threatening peritonitis. The boy survived with surgery, but of course would never been in trouble if he had swallowed the magnets together and they had united in the stomach | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Thanks Damien - good puzzle. And this was a real life case?!! | ||
| Damien Sullivan (Docd)
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Yes, it happened recently in North America. A bit scary, isn't it, that something as innocuous as a pair of small magnets could possibly kill you in this simple way | ||
| Arjun Rangarajan (Jun)
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One wonders what else the surgeon might have found in the boy's intestines while looking for the magnets... | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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A good candidate for the Darwin Award! | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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Well, after all, they feed magnets to cows, and there's lots of pseudo-science hype about magnets providing healing, so perhaps it was an attempt to cure his chronic IBS or something... |
