Did I Do Right?

Cyrano

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Reading the forum tonight, sipping a little Black Jack over ice as is my custom (That may account for some of the comments I post). Got halfway down the glass, and noticed a fly in the drink. He wasn't moving (Jack is pretty powerful stuff if you're a fly). I dumped it out and refilled with ice and BJ. Did I do right?
 
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Why waste it ? The fly was already dead right? I mean he had enough so the rest was yours.
 
You wasted good protein. A welcome addition to a nice glass of Jack Black. Enough flies and you can save the jerky for another day.
 
Sounds like a suicide, perhaps the local authorities should have been notified. And you should have asked your wife what the fly was doing in your drink. I would expect the answer to be the backstroke.......
 
Alcohol is a good disinfectant and the fly was dead. Unless you like a little crunchy, remove the corpse and enjoy what's left. Never waste the good stuff. Personally I think Black Jack is over rated but to each their own!
 
Cyrano-Seeing as you are a US Army veteran, I'm sure you know of the rule...wasted alcohol equals push-ups! Drop and give the guys twenty! :D
 
I drank a big house spider a few weeks ago in a cup of coffee. I use one of those cone-filters with boiling water from a teapot and had just made a nice cup of Colombian. I removed the filter from my cup, added a splash of creamer... and that was when the dead spider floated to the top of my mug.

I didn't want to waste good coffee or take a chance on breaking it up into pieces by trying to fish it out, so the not-so-itsy-bitsy spider went down in the first gulp....


I would have dumped the Jack, too, but I don't think much of it as a beverage.

Now if I had found a fly in my glass of Willett Family Reserve cask-strength bourbon, he would have been a chaser. I'm not dumping good whiskey for a pesky, dead( or at least VERY drunk) housefly.
 
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Well, you do realize if it was a Fruit fly it was sharing your drink in an effort to deter parasitic wasps and drosophila - maybe you shouldn't be so selfish next time - quit thinking about yourself Cyrano! :)
 
Reading the forum tonight, sipping a little Black Jack over ice as is my custom (That may account for some of the comments I post). Got halfway down the glass, and noticed a fly in the drink. He wasn't moving (Jack is pretty powerful stuff if you're a fly). I dumped it out and refilled with ice and BJ. Did I do right?

Sir, no, you did not. Like the punchline of the old joke, you should have held the fly over the glass by his wings and shouted, "Spit it out!"

:D

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.
 
Whats that old joke....
An Englishman, a Canadian;and an Irishman stop for a bit o' refreshment at a local bar. All three find a fly in their drink.
The Englishman demands another,
the Canadian picks out the fly and keeps drinking;
The Irishman grabs the fly and hollers "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YA *******''!!!
 
I would of picked the fly out & drink the rest, no need to throw it out.
 
Crikey Mate!!!

If we tipped out every drink with a fly in it down here we'd die of dehydration.
Should've chugged it down and then chugged down more!!

Cheers, Gruntanz

I learned quickly to always hold my tinny or stubby with thumb over the hole. Ya haven't been Down Under till ya've chugged a bushie with yer pizz.:D
 
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