Did I Do Right?

[hudsonvalley]

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..

 

[WrongWay]

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?

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]

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]

I would of picked the fly out & drink the rest, no need to throw it out.

All joking aside, this is the correct answer.

 

[CajunBass]

I'm a teatottler and even I know better.

 

[gunlovingirl]

I bet you've ate worse and never even knew it.

 

[Thuer]

Anyway the fly died happy.

 

[fiasconva]

The wings are the best part by the way...

 

[Biker Bill]

Least you could have done is to pluck out the fly, light a match and give him a Viking funeral"

 

[COL Jagdog]

Should I have buried him with full military honors?

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.

This is an unclassified message.

 

[Cyrano]

I bet you've ate worse and never even knew it.

I've eaten worse and did know it. Ever eaten in one of those Vietnamese 'restaurants' out in the country under a big umbrella to keep off the sun? Hard to find a clean pair of chopsticks in the rusty can of them. Hope the last guy that used them didn't have TB. No Ba-Muoi-Ba, just Biere Larue, and when it melts the ice in the glass there's half an inch of sediment in there.

Col Jagdog: sounds like you've done this sort of thing before.

 

[COL Jagdog]

I had a very good track record keeping the helicopter pilots (in one of the units I was assigned to) out of trouble and flying ..... never had to buy a beer (or JD) when out with them.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Gosh, You passed the test of a real man. Bugs don't count in a deer hunting camp & I've eaten a bunch thru the years & probably drank more.

 

[Bill_in_fl]

Could you tell if the fly was yelling "Help me! Help me!" or looked like Jeff Goldblum or David Hedison?

Good waste of booze. If my old drill instructor from Parris Island had seen you do that, he would have done the same thing he did to recruits who swatted a sand flea. Made you bury the fly in a six foot hole you dug. Then asked you what sex it was, and when you couldn't answer, made you dig the fly back up to find out its sex, then rebury it. "Bends and thrusts and don't stop til I get tired" my old drill instructor would say.

You had the fly all pickled and disinfected with the alcohol already. My mom would say "Eat your fly, what about all the starving children in India who don't have any flies to eat?".

Where is your survivalist spirit? For shame.


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[coiler666]

Man, i Love this bar!!

 

[OldBull57]

Better a fly than ice in whiskey.

 

[pawncop]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +1