May 11, 2007

• The Mythbusters busted this one a couple years back. Their result: They found that the amount of bacteria that was picked up depended on the moisture of food, the surface geometry of food, and the location that it was dropped on, but there was no correlation to the amount of time it was dropped.
• I once stayed with some people who kept a sponge in the kitchen sink all the time, and used it to wipe off the counters. Every surface was greasy. I went through many a can of cootie spray during those two weeks I can tell you.
• Let's be realistic - our innards are home to far more teensy flora and fauna than the kitchen floor could ever hope to acquire. The counters should be cootie-spraying US!
• I find it hard to believe that anyone could have possibly believed that germs, etc. would wait five seconds before sticking to a new surface. Did these people also think you couldn't get pregnant if you remove the unit within five seconds of orgasm?
• The Mythbusters busted this one a couple years back... but there was no correlation to the amount of time it was dropped. No offense, but I'll trust the findings of people who spend more than a week studying these things sooner than a bunch of dabbling, rushed special effects guys who tend to (but not always) have poor experimental designs - not that I don't like the show.
• Not that I would trust their findings either, InsolentChimp, just that this myth always seemed common sense to me.
• Whatever. A base level of germs is healthy. This proliferation of childrens' allergies is directly related to the prohibition on eating dirt.
• My bologna has a first name, it's E-C-O-L-I....
• My baloney has a second name it's C-R-Y-P-T-O-S-P-O-R-I-D-I-U-M...
• My bologna has a name, and it's Mr. Lovegood.
• And it's a proponent of the 5 second rule?
• I always pictured germs rushing across the kitchen floor on their little legs and trying to jump onto my biscuit before I speedily retrieved that tasty morsel and laughed in their little germy faces.
• Exactly, roryk. They're ruining all the fun.
• The Mythbusters busted this one a couple years back. The Mythbusters are pussies.
• (self-link)
• Kiss it up to God. It's like a 5-second rule exorcism for germies.
• Oh, I love to eat is every day, And if you ask me why, I'll say, "'Cause my bologna has a way With B-A-C-T-E-R-I-A."
• I'm just a kid, I like to rhyme, My metronome keeps precise time. Syllable count's imoprtant to me But I always have a really hard time ending the small poem as you can see.
• Oh, get married already, you two!
• I never trusted the five second rule, although I do seem to vaguely remember that there are no rules when you're shit faced drunk.(will not relate story of dropped fried chicken on roadway)
• hey retank! you're right about the shit-faced drunk. dare I even tell the story of friends who at tinned sardines off the GROUND at burning man?????????????????????? it's become a legend.
• I dropped a pickle in the dust once, luckily it had been raining the night before so I just swished it around in a nearby puddle. The skunk that was bathing in the puddle was pretty pissed and sprayed me as I was eating the pickle. Man, I tried to wash the musk off with tomato juice, but that stuff makes you feel ill! Like food poisoning almost!
• If I drop it on the floor after I've mopped, I eat it. If I drop it on the floor when there's dust bunnies and dog hair, I don't. I might eat it when it's dropped on the computer room floor or in the kitchen. I don't eat it if it's dropped on the bathroom floor. Sometimes you just have to think these through. And don't eat it if you haven't had your cooties shot.
• If I drop food, I let the cat lick the germs off before I pick it back up and eat it.
• You just gots to wash it down with some likker to kill the germs.
• This just in! Scientific proof that cooties do exisit on your food! Catch them before they catch you! Pass them on to someone else Practice getting rid of them
• Shocking new Skittle-based evidence!
• It's not the bacteria, it's the dog hair. Bleah.