Microwave experiments cause sponge disasters

Reuters ^ | 01/25/07

[ctdonath2]

SpongeBob amazes me: oh, the power of marketing.

I try to imagine a creative director going to a meeting of top managers, saying "I'd like you to spend tens of millions of dollars on ... a talking sponge. And market this thing for display on everything from notepaper to boxer shorts."

[Erasmus]

If anything, a billion of the latter could lessen the former.

[ReignOfError]

Bleach works. No more than about a 10% concentration and not for too long, but it'll kill most of what needs killin'.

[petro45acp]

Sponges are nasty.

If one absolutely needs to use one, it should not be in food prep areas. Clean the bathroom with it, then throw it away.

Sponges are nasty.

[presidio9]

I try to imagine a creative director going to a meeting of top managers

[steveo]

[babygene]

"go to your local Dollar General store and buy a bag for $2.00"

That reminds me of something funny.

We have more than one "Dollar store" chain in Boise. One of them, just raised their prices, and it's now "Honks 1.05" store... Even the sign was changed.

[visualops]

Those sponges are crap.

Besides, if you can clean it, why throw it away?
OTOH, I wouldn't waste electricity nuking it, I clean sponges in a mild bleach solution.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

These people are allowed to vote?

[cripplecreek]

It probably wouldn't be wise to start a rumor that a microwave will recharge batteries.

[cyborg]

good grief

[cyborg]

Any reason why soaking them in hydrogen peroxide won't work?? I saw this coming...the whole burning sponge thing. This is cruelty to sponges.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yep, microwaves just love little magnetic conductive strips.

[vetvetdoug]

Then I put my whole wallet in....

Damn doc, I'd have to think pretty hard to top that. However, a microwave has some real good uses in a medical practice. I use it to warm towels to use to wrap animals coming out from under anesthesia. Learned by trial and error that 10 seconds is the best....20 seconds is a fire with a mess. I use it also to warm fluids, leave it in for 45 seconds per litre, no longer. Any longer melts the plastic or explodes the fluids and makes a mess....also warm the fluids without the IV set...the metal in the drip makes for a few sparks. Also, whole blood in the microwave is another story....

[presidio9]

Steven Colbert (who I actually find funny) stole Bill O'Reilly's (who I find to be a bit of a pompous ass) microwave when he was on his show the other night. Then, he displayed it on his show, and microwaved a CD in it. As seen on Mythbusters, this produces a cool light show, but I couldn't help thinking that it is only a matter of time before some copycat burns down his apartment building. I am also shock that after three weeks no numbnuts has tried to copy Wesley Audrey by laying down between the subway tracks.

[CharlesWayneCT]

You know what's really got me creeped out -- those Tempurpedic commercials that explain to me that eventually my mattress will weigh twice as much as when I bought it, all because it will be filled with dead and live mites.


Fortunately, I have one of those select-comfort beds now, but still.......

[CharlesWayneCT]

What's that -- its Crab People!!!

[zerosix]

Humorous.

[zerosix]

I, too, used to bleach mine but my daughter said, "Hey Mom, you don't need to waste time soaking in bleach solution, I just put mine in the dish washer and run it with the dishes."

Yet another way to clean sponges.

[chuckles]

I've been spouting this for months now. The same people that do this are the ones being polled as to what to do in Iraq. They've never been so much as a boy scout, but they know how to win wars. I feel the same with Wrangel now in charge of trillion dollar budgets and he graduated from Harlem high. Last night on American Idol, you get to see the fruitcakes that hate Bush and know everything about the war, economy and politics and they are asked what they think in polls. They are as bad at politics as they are singing.

Recently Sean Hanity asked New Yorkers to repeat the Pledge of Allegiance. They couldn't. They didn't know who Pelosi was, but they voted Democrat. We should be consulting movie stars and singers for the war strategy because they at least finished Jr High and were waiters. When people say Bush has a 30% approval rating, I say "Thank God".