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Pac-Man Lotto & The Great Growing Creature Experiment.

Strolled on down to Midtown Comics today to pick up eighty copies of the ToyFare mag I did the Family Guy thing for, and the feature looks, pun alert, freakin' sweet. I'm exaggerating on the eighty copies bit, but not by much, and I'm surprised the guy working the register didn't bat an eye at a customer buying so many copies of the same magazine. There I was, begging, pleading, DARING him to ask "WHY" so I could tell him of my glories...but nope, nada, nothing. He just cashed my thousand dollar bill and threw me down the stairs.

In more exciting news, there's a new scratch-off Lotto ticket in town, and it's called "Pac-Man Mania." They haven't done much to beef it up with anything too Pac-ish, though the usual instant-win coins have been replaced with ol' yeller himself. Sadly not available in NY yet as far as I can tell, the idea of winning money from Pac-Man is bitchin' enough for a Jersey drive. As for the rest of the states in this fair country...I have absolutely no idea. Hit a deli and look for Pac-Man. Hell, you've done it before.

Oh, so I had this big stash of things that grow 600% bigger in water -- you know the drill. They've just been scattered about collecting dust for the past year or so. I've decided to perform an experiment. What you see above is a sampling of the growing monsters I've collected (I took the pics prematurely...actually found a few more), covering everything from SpongeBob to Halloween monsters to big red hearts that promise to only get bigger. Instead of going the usual route, we're gonna plop 'em all in one big bowl to find out what kind of unearthly demon God will create.

Again, I added a few more after taking these pics, so the end results will be even more absurd than you're predicting. I'll keep you updated. Maybe.

Posted by Matt on 04/21/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 52 comments

YESSSSSS!

Chestnuts roasted by Lucien @ 04/21/2005 8:45 PM

Sorry about being so excited to have the first post. Pretty crappy week so far. Matt your experiment reminds of an experiment I did for my 8th grade science class to find out if cold or hot water froze faster. Kind of. I only got a B+ because I couldn’t figure out why the hot water froze faster.

Chestnuts roasted by Lucien @ 04/21/2005 8:53 PM

Whoa! Close to 1st!

Hey Matt, the other day I found A-Team party hats and napkins, 1983 mint in sealed package. It’s my first little piece of the 80s, I am one happy man.

Chestnuts roasted by KTK @ 04/21/2005 9:03 PM

Those things remind me of the "pills" that grow into spongey shapes in water (Matt has reviewed them a couple of times). Which brings to mind the question my brother and I always hypothesized (but never field tested): If you swallow those sponge capsules will you, ahem, poop out sponges? Sorry to be gross, just a lingering mystery I’ve pondered since I was a wee lass.

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 04/21/2005 9:03 PM

Hey, I live in New Jersey. Maybe I’ll head out to the nearest place that sells lottery tickets and see if Pac Man will make me feel lucky.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 04/21/2005 9:04 PM

I also wonder that about the sponges. I’ve been saying I’ll eat one next time I get them, but I haven’t had any for at least 2 years, so that day has yet to come. I wonder if something similar would happen if you swallowed Spongebob up there? I would eat him if given the promise of sponge crapping.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 04/21/2005 9:15 PM

The newsstand guy actually accepted a thousand dollar bill? Or is that another exaggeration? I thought, for their own safety, they don’t generally like to have more than $100 on them at a time.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/21/2005 9:25 PM

Do you suppose that an expanded sponge shaped like Dracula would function as an effective contraceptive? Only one way to find out, I guess…

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 04/21/2005 10:09 PM

If you swallow those sponge capsules, you go to the emergency room. It happened to a friend of a friend a couple months back; when she told me about it, my immediate response was "So did he poop out dinosaurs?!?" Alas, he did not. Don’t eat sponge capsules.

Am I the only one really *excited* to see how Matt’s experiment turns out? And does that make me really lame?

Chestnuts roasted by Jeffster @ 04/21/2005 10:36 PM

Okay, I just have to gloat. I’m going to Green Day/My Chemical Romance tomorrow and its probably gonna be the second best day of my life.

"I’m the son of rage and love" =)

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 04/21/2005 11:11 PM

Im excited i cant wait i love those lil things that go in water and grow imma buy some this weekend and put like 5 in a coke bottle and see what happens and is that a nude sponge bob?

Chestnuts roasted by JAM @ 04/21/2005 11:18 PM

I’m going to pretend that the mummy sponge expansion thing is not a mummy but. . .bum bum bum! White Tiger Spooky Man! to the maxx!

Chestnuts roasted by Ant @ 04/21/2005 11:32 PM

hahaha! UH OH, thats gonna be a beast!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 04/21/2005 11:43 PM

Pretty sweet that u r updating almost everyday man. I have to say you have a cool life.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 04/22/2005 12:36 PM

My bet is one the zebra print mummy to be the biggest of all!

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 04/22/2005 1:58 AM

They do that at Science and Supply Warehouse in Chicago.

Spoiler Elert

They have had the same grow things in a big jar in the front of the store for years. They just get as big as they get and thats it. Sorry to ruin it. I like brains that grow in a jar like from the Haunted Garage song Brain in a jar from the movie Nightmare Sisters with Linnea Quigley and Brink Stevens. Matt you should review those movies. Since you brought up pacman lottery I’m gonna bring up the article that had the pacman noodle soup again. I gotta get some of that stuff…

Chestnuts roasted by Pat @ 04/22/2005 2:29 AM

I don’t know why, but I’m also a little excited to see how this turns out. Even though I somehow know it’ll probably be just one big sponge in the shape of the bowl.

Chestnuts roasted by Well @ 04/22/2005 2:48 AM

Man, I love those sponge things.

And, I have a confession….I only watched a whole episode of SpongeBob for the first time yesterday. *hangs head in shame* I like it much better than most of the shows Nick has on right now, though. At 2AM here in Korea, that old game show, "Legends of the Hidden Temple" comes on- sweet!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 04/22/2005 4:36 AM

Maybe? MAYBE?!?! I better be seeing some pictures of giant grow things, or so help me I’ll…um, I’ll…I tell you what I’ll do I’ll write a post in the next thread that’s so angry you’ll…um, well, probably just remove it. But that will take at least a few minutes of your time so there! HA!

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 04/22/2005 9:41 AM

I can’t be the only person who fails to understand why spongebob appeals to older people. I’ve watched a few episodes and I’d rather be watching invader Zim. I like all types of stupid, lowbrow or bad movies and shows, but I just don’t see this as funny.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 04/22/2005 10:12 AM

Why is one of the spongebobs naked?

Chestnuts roasted by T-Dot @ 04/22/2005 10:47 AM

http://www.theforce.net/collecting/story/More_EP3_on_Star_Wars_Trivial_Pursuit_DVD_91311.asp">More EP3 on Star Wars Trivial Pursuit DVD

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 04/22/2005 10:57 AM

That Dracula one SUCKS! It’s awful! Seriously, it maybe grew to 1.5 it’s original size.

I almost cried.

Chestnuts roasted by Bryan @ 04/22/2005 11:12 AM

I don’t get Spongebob’s adult appeal either. I can see stoners liking it, I guess, but it’s no Ren & Stimpy.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeffster @ 04/22/2005 12:14 PM

Growing these in a jar is cool, especially if you get the internal organs. Even better? Growing them in a bowl, then when they’re nice and big, throw ‘em at someone. Shplatt!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/22/2005 1:24 PM

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