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Posted by Debra on March 3, 2007, 11:03 pm
It was dinner time and we were eating at the kitchen table. I had a
bottle of Pepsi and a yummy steak and baked potato. Sounds great
doesn't it? I reached for something and accidentally hit the Pepsi
bottle. As the bottle tips I grab for it hoping to stop the
inevitable. No such luck--when I grabbed the bottle it was one jar
too many for the soda inside and the soft drink rather explosively
gave up all it's fizz at once. The bottle was a fountain of brown
bubbles! The 24 oz bottle went from full to nearly empty in about 20
seconds. If you ever saw a Mentos and Diet Coke experiment you have
seen what happened to my drink. A volcano of foam. It went
everywhere---the table, some papers on the table, me, the floor, a
nearby fan, the kitchen window, and worst of all onto an unoccupied
chair where I had put a new sewing kit with my current applique
project inside, and several pieces of new fabric sitting beside it.
Arg!
Well, I've already washed my clothes, the towels used to get up the
soda, and myself. Then I found out I had no color catcher sheets so I
couldn't wash all the fabrics together. I sent DH to the store for
color catcher sheets while I finished washing dishes. The fabric is
washing as I type and I can only hope the Pepsi comes out of it.
I don't know what to do for the sewing kit. It was brown to begin
with, but now the lid is a little sticky. I might spray it with some
enzyme type spot cleaner. The project inside is dry as can be so no
worries there.
Anyway, the lessons I learned tonight:
Sometimes it is better to let something fall over and spill rather
than try to catch it in mid-tip.
And
After a soda volcano, what little drink is left in the bottle is
really, really, really flat.
Debra in VA
See my quilts at
http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere
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Posted by Polly Esther on March 3, 2007, 11:14 pm
For additional fun, you might try making cranberry daiquiris without the lid
on the blender. Fortunately, mine was the 3rd batch and nobody cared. Polly
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> It was dinner time and we were eating at the kitchen table. I had a
> bottle of Pepsi and a yummy steak and baked potato. Sounds great
> doesn't it? I reached for something and accidentally hit the Pepsi
> bottle. As the bottle tips I grab for it hoping to stop the
> inevitable. No such luck--when I grabbed the bottle it was one jar
> too many for the soda inside and the soft drink rather explosively
> gave up all it's fizz at once. The bottle was a fountain of brown
> bubbles! The 24 oz bottle went from full to nearly empty in about 20
> seconds. If you ever saw a Mentos and Diet Coke experiment you have
> seen what happened to my drink. A volcano of foam. It went
> everywhere---the table, some papers on the table, me, the floor, a
> nearby fan, the kitchen window, and worst of all onto an unoccupied
> chair where I had put a new sewing kit with my current applique
> project inside, and several pieces of new fabric sitting beside it.
> Arg!
> Well, I've already washed my clothes, the towels used to get up the
> soda, and myself. Then I found out I had no color catcher sheets so I
> couldn't wash all the fabrics together. I sent DH to the store for
> color catcher sheets while I finished washing dishes. The fabric is
> washing as I type and I can only hope the Pepsi comes out of it.
> I don't know what to do for the sewing kit. It was brown to begin
> with, but now the lid is a little sticky. I might spray it with some
> enzyme type spot cleaner. The project inside is dry as can be so no
> worries there.
> Anyway, the lessons I learned tonight:
> Sometimes it is better to let something fall over and spill rather
> than try to catch it in mid-tip.
> And
> After a soda volcano, what little drink is left in the bottle is
> really, really, really flat.
> Debra in VA
> See my quilts at
> http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere
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Posted by Debra on March 4, 2007, 12:01 am
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:14:38 -0600, "Polly Esther" wrote:
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>For additional fun, you might try making cranberry daiquiris without the lid
>on the blender. Fortunately, mine was the 3rd batch and nobody cared. Polly
I thought I heard faint laughter right after I pressed the send
button. I just knew it would be you too. Sounds like those daiquiris
were yummy. I'm contemplating having a little Disaronno. Amaretto is
so gooood.
Debra in VA
See my quilts at
http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere
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Posted by Val on March 4, 2007, 3:54 pm
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> For additional fun, you might try making cranberry daiquiris without the
> lid on the blender. Fortunately, mine was the 3rd batch and nobody cared.
> Polly
After the third batch most people would be pretty close to horizontal anyway
which would make it convenient to slurp it off the floor and lick off the
cupboard doors anyway ;) Can't let that stuff go to waste! To put the
appropriate twist on the phrase all us kids of the 50s used to
hear........."Lick it up fer gawd sakes.....there's sober people in
China!!!"
Val
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Posted by Taria on March 4, 2007, 12:18 am
What a mess. We need to give you a lesson in fun Saturday nights.
(I could use one of those too)
If you drink clear soda you don't get stains and if you drink diet
ones you don't get sticky. Go for that or just go straight for
the daiquiris. Next Saturday have DH take you out to dinner ; )
Hope tomorrow goes better.
Taria
Debra wrote:
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> It was dinner time and we were eating at the kitchen table. I had a
> bottle of Pepsi and a yummy steak and baked potato. Sounds great
> doesn't it? I reached for something and accidentally hit the Pepsi
> bottle. As the bottle tips I grab for it hoping to stop the
> inevitable. No such luck--when I grabbed the bottle it was one jar
> too many for the soda inside and the soft drink rather explosively
> gave up all it's fizz at once. The bottle was a fountain of brown
> bubbles! The 24 oz bottle went from full to nearly empty in about 20
> seconds. If you ever saw a Mentos and Diet Coke experiment you have
> seen what happened to my drink. A volcano of foam. It went
> everywhere---the table, some papers on the table, me, the floor, a
> nearby fan, the kitchen window, and worst of all onto an unoccupied
> chair where I had put a new sewing kit with my current applique
> project inside, and several pieces of new fabric sitting beside it.
> Arg!
>
> Well, I've already washed my clothes, the towels used to get up the
> soda, and myself. Then I found out I had no color catcher sheets so I
> couldn't wash all the fabrics together. I sent DH to the store for
> color catcher sheets while I finished washing dishes. The fabric is
> washing as I type and I can only hope the Pepsi comes out of it.
>
> I don't know what to do for the sewing kit. It was brown to begin
> with, but now the lid is a little sticky. I might spray it with some
> enzyme type spot cleaner. The project inside is dry as can be so no
> worries there.
>
> Anyway, the lessons I learned tonight:
> Sometimes it is better to let something fall over and spill rather
> than try to catch it in mid-tip.
> And
> After a soda volcano, what little drink is left in the bottle is
> really, really, really flat.
> Debra in VA
> See my quilts at
> http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere
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> bottle of Pepsi and a yummy steak and baked potato. Sounds great
> doesn't it? I reached for something and accidentally hit the Pepsi
> bottle. As the bottle tips I grab for it hoping to stop the
> inevitable. No such luck--when I grabbed the bottle it was one jar
> too many for the soda inside and the soft drink rather explosively
> gave up all it's fizz at once. The bottle was a fountain of brown
> bubbles! The 24 oz bottle went from full to nearly empty in about 20
> seconds. If you ever saw a Mentos and Diet Coke experiment you have
> seen what happened to my drink. A volcano of foam. It went
> everywhere---the table, some papers on the table, me, the floor, a
> nearby fan, the kitchen window, and worst of all onto an unoccupied
> chair where I had put a new sewing kit with my current applique
> project inside, and several pieces of new fabric sitting beside it.
> Arg!
> Well, I've already washed my clothes, the towels used to get up the
> soda, and myself. Then I found out I had no color catcher sheets so I
> couldn't wash all the fabrics together. I sent DH to the store for
> color catcher sheets while I finished washing dishes. The fabric is
> washing as I type and I can only hope the Pepsi comes out of it.
> I don't know what to do for the sewing kit. It was brown to begin
> with, but now the lid is a little sticky. I might spray it with some
> enzyme type spot cleaner. The project inside is dry as can be so no
> worries there.
> Anyway, the lessons I learned tonight:
> Sometimes it is better to let something fall over and spill rather
> than try to catch it in mid-tip.
> And
> After a soda volcano, what little drink is left in the bottle is
> really, really, really flat.
> Debra in VA
> See my quilts at
> http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere