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?
Did I Do Right?
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RightArm
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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.
Gunslinger808
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Heck, people suck worms out of cheap Tequila...
just sayin.
just sayin.
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.......
mwtdvm
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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!
Blue'87GT
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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! 
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.
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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Fishslayer
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No................
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!"
Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.
Ron H.
gruntanz
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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
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
You drank it on ice and dumped it out?? And you are from Texas?
handejector
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No.
You should have poured the Jack into a bowl for a fly trap and bought yourself a bottle of 12 yr old Dickel.
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 *******''!!!
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 *******''!!!
sourdough44
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I would of picked the fly out & drink the rest, no need to throw it out.
Fishslayer
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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.
bshepherd
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I probably would have just flicked him out of the glass, finished it a hurry and poured another.
hudsonvalley
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I've heard that alcohol kills bugs and you proved it....everyone that's eaten dirt is healthier than those that wash their hands every time they pass a sink...and I am not a doctor...just telling you I like the taste of water from a garden hose..
When I was in the Navy I was visiting a friend who lived off base. We were watching football I believe. Anyway I was drinking a Coke and didn't notice the cigarette butt in the bottom of the bottle till the Coke was half gone. It didn't even taste funny.
So I guess a fly in your drink isn't all that bad. You should have just gulped him down, he was already decontaminated.
joeintexas
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Probably depends on how many Jacks you had already drank....if it was the first one, pick it out....if it was the fifth one I would have been lucky to have even seen the fly...or a kangaroo for that matter!! Cheers!
LoadedRound
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All joking aside, this is the correct answer.
I'm a teatottler and even I know better. 
gunlovingirl
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I bet you've ate worse and never even knew it.
Thuer
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Anyway the fly died happy.
fiasconva
US Veteran
The wings are the best part by the way...
Least you could have done is to pluck out the fly, light a match and give him a Viking funeral"
COL Jagdog
Member
Sounds like a Class A aviation accident to me -- so no medals
(no Distinguished Flying Cross or Air Medal -- he landed in the drink, right -- if you shot him down with a fly swatter, then he might be entitled to an award) -- otherwise, I will convene
an AR 15-6 investigation and conduct a FEB (Flying Evaluation Board). There is a no ETOH for 24 hrs before flight rule. My guess is that said fly was .20 -.25 when you noticed, so clearly in no condition to fly.
We also have to have a Report of Survey -- those fly wings don't come cheap and he obviously destroyed them when he ditched in your drink and hit the icebergs floating in the JD.
I will email the forms to you -- fill them out in triplicate and please submit. The airframe and detritus must be preserved
until the IO (investigating officer) can examine it. Please overnight a 5th of JD Black along with the documents so we can do the proper testing. We must do destructive testing of the JD, so it will not be returned.
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