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myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532) 5 years ago

I used to have my computer in my home office (converted dining room). Last week I moved my computer in to the living room, and other than turning the tv on and off a couple of times have had no occasion to go in to that area again.

So, today I'm sitting at my computer, typing away, and something is smelling a bit funky. I didn't know what it was. I went to take a nap and forgot about it.

When I woke up, I wanted to pay some bills and went to grab a notepad out of my office. That's when I discovered it.

I had forgotten that the night I moved my computer, I was drinking a cup of hot chocolate. That cup was still sitting on the table, but it no longer was the color of hot chocolate. It was the color of kermit the frog.

Have you ever conducted an amature, in home science project or experiment such as the one I inadvertantly conducted? What did it start out as and what did it end up as? Did you turn it in to penicillin?

 

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razcal2267 (9670) response was accepted on 1/6/2008.
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tags:  amateur science experiments, fermentation, inadvertent scientific research, moldy dishes, moldy hot chocolateyum
 
1. myLot reputation of 94/100. Goodie123 (7548)   5 years ago

Owwww Yumo did you reheat it and drink it.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

not only did i not reheat it, but i think it will be a while before i am interested in drinking hot chocolate again.


myLot reputation of 94/100. Goodie123 (7548)  5 years ago

Oh D, waste not want not.
Think of all the poor starving people who could have used that drink.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

they would still be starving after they drank it because they would have puked it right up!


myLot reputation of 94/100. Goodie123 (7548)  5 years ago

But think of all the penicillin they would have been getting.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

always look on the bright side, goodie. ;)


myLot reputation of 94/100. Goodie123 (7548)  5 years ago

Yes we must always look on the bright side of life.
I am just off to do a bit of cooking shall return shortly.

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2. myLot reputation of 97/100. peanutjar (2241)   5 years ago

EWW!haha.I made potatoe and egg salad one time and had put the rest in the fridge.Somehow it had got pushed way back behind the pop box and forgot all about,until i started smelling this stinky odour like egg farts had been let off inside the fridge one day.I started looking around in there andmoved the pop box ben and pulled out this fuzzy hairy looking blob,haha!I invented hair growth,hahaha!Now all i have to do is get my boufriend to let me slab on some blob hair fuzz in his tiny middle "spot" on his head and bam!No more bare,ooops,thinning spot,hehe.Its the same color of his hair,which is black.Pretty good eh?!Sometimes i amaze myself,haha!
Peanutjar:)Happy New Year.Im in a chippy mood because my mom is coming down tomorrow for a couple of days for a visit.It will help her change her mind,being the holidays and all.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

LOL...I've had that happen on many occasions. Things getting lost in the fridge. Yum!

You do sound like you are in a good mood! I'm glad. :) I hope you have a great time with your mom!


myLot reputation of 97/100. peanutjar (2241)  5 years ago

We both feel to be around eachother alot lately and talk every day on the phone since christmas and that.Its like we have become more closer.I feel to be around her more.I still think about gram alot,but need my mom right now and she seems to need me also.I dont want to loose her anytime soon:(
Peanutjar:)

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3. myLot reputation of 93/100. Transdisc (18434)   5 years ago

I am stumped, D. I know I've conducted some experiments, but I can't think of one rightnow. I'm going to try to think on this, D.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

Please visit when you can remember one. Three boys and yourself all living in the same house. There must be several excellent entries you can offer. ;)

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4. myLot reputation of 78/100. suspenseful (19615)   ranked 6 out of 25 in big fat burritos   5 years ago

I left a slab of cheese in the fridge until the edges of it turned into penicillin. This took a lot of willpower, since the cheese was of a fine quantity and it was very tempting not to finish it off. I cannot recall at the moment any other things going wrong other than insects magically appearing in a container of flour, I believe by alchemy, as well it is not that hot enough to turn hot chocolate into kermit the frog.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

it would break my heart to throw cheese away, too, suspenseful. i wouldn't cut the edges off but i would think about it. LOL

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5. myLot reputation of 97/100. AmbiePam (20784)   5 years ago

Growing up my sister would drink and drink apple juice until it was gone. She'd take the glass to her room to read, and... Three months later my mom goes into her room and happens to take a glance at her window sill. Four glasses of apple juice which then could have probably been made into beer.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

OMG! LOL... can apple juice "really" turn in to beer? I suck at science so I don't know.... :)


myLot reputation of 97/100. AmbiePam (20784)  5 years ago

It's not officially beer because I assume there are other steps, but fermented apple juice does lay the basis for the contents of a homemade beer.


myLot reputation of 94/100. alamode (1852)   ranked 5 out of 25 in big fat burritos  5 years ago

I traditionally put 2 nearly-full gallon jugs of apple cider in the lower part of my refrigerator on Thanksgiving... except for opening the caps once a week to release the pressure, I ignore them. Its glorious 'hard' cider by New Years Eve!!

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6. myLot reputation of 99/100. ElicBxn (24693)   5 years ago

I've currently got something growing on some old beans in the fridge - but I'm not quite brave enough - yet - to go dump it!


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

I have had that happen more than once LOL. Hopefully it's in something disposable. LOL

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7. myLot reputation of 49/100. shijjukhan (201)   5 years ago

not exactly...i had not done such exactly experiments...and i dont want to know disturb the regular life..or science..
i do tried for many a times to do something new or innovative but felt not to take risk and drop that idea..


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

that is probably best. happy new year. :)

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8. myLot reputation of 93/100. xboxboy (1792)   5 years ago

i conducted an experiment in human resourcefulness.

I locked my granny in the cupboard when mum and dad went on holiday for a week.

she survived by eating my mothers mink coat. so back to the nursing home for granny!

Still, very resourceful!


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

resourceful indeed. how did you explain the missing mink coat to your mum upon her return?


myLot reputation of 93/100. xboxboy (1792)  5 years ago

that's why she is back to the nursing home. mommys good mink coat!

im glad she gibbers so she can not stick me in it!

Do you have any elderly relatives you want rid of?


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

no, unfortunately almost all of them are gone without ouside influence.

i do have a younger relative that is certifiable, and if you feel comfortable offing him, i'll get you his address.

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9. myLot reputation of 94/100. alamode (1852)   ranked 5 out of 25 in big fat burritos   5 years ago

Early on, I had a bag of forgotten potatoes that turned into research on the life-cycle of the fruitfly... I learned that, while they don't live long, they are intensely prolific. We must have had a few hundred generations before they were finally gone...


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

hmmm....i seemed to have that problem with gnats for a long while. i'm actually shocked to not have seen one in days. blech!


myLot reputation of 94/100. alamode (1852)   ranked 5 out of 25 in big fat burritos  5 years ago

My sis had a problem with gnats a month or so
ago... they were coming from her dry dog food!!!


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

how did she get rid of them???? or, once she ditched the dog food, were they gone?

thankfully i haven't seen any in a few days!


myLot reputation of 94/100. alamode (1852)   ranked 5 out of 25 in big fat burritos  5 years ago

Once the bag was gone, the ones that didn't
get zapped by the bug light committed willing
sacrifice in the dog's dish and the bathtub...

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10. myLot reputation of 86/100. razcal2267 (9670)   5 years ago

LOL. I am sorry but that is funny. I have done things like that from time to time. The last one I can remember was a mug of soup. I was having it for dinner while sitting at my computer, didn't finish it but left the mug on my desk.

Yes, I know you are thinking so what penicillin does not grow over night. I left the next morning and was away for over a week. I came back to find green fuzzy stuff growing in my mug. Now, I know that I am the one who left the mug there but WTF is the matter with the two friends I live with? You have to go through my room to take the garbage outside. They didn't see the mug there? They just couldn't be bothered to help me out with something I forgot? Maybe one of them was coming down with a cold and knew she was going to need penicillin. I don't know but Yuck Gross

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myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

LOL! People are lazy, Raz. Have you not figured that out?

Once when I was in high school, my step father did an experiement on us. He put a tissue in front of a door to see how many times we (my brothers and I) would walk over it before actually picking it up.

I know it was there for days, not sure how many. He finally got mad at us for not picking it up and told us what he'd done and why. LOL I thought it was quite funny but he was probably thinking more along your lines. Now of course I see it, but then, I didn't care.

Any chance your roommates are 17 year old lazy high school kids??? LOL


myLot reputation of 86/100. razcal2267 (9670)  5 years ago

LOL too funny. I am sure neither are 17. It baffles me because they both are the type that if there is an empty glass on the table they will pick it up and put it in the sink or dishwasher, even if you have just left it there on your way to the bathroom or to answer the phone as a reminder to refill it when you come back into the room.


myLot reputation of 94/100. dfn12968 (5532)  5 years ago

is there any possibility that they really did not see it?


myLot reputation of 86/100. razcal2267 (9670)  5 years ago

I guess but they have to pass my desk when going out that door. Can't see why they would have started to go out the front door and walk around the house just to throw the garbage out or take the cans to the corner on collection day just because I am not here.

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