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18 December 2008
Today I learned why we do not use regular dish soap in the dishwasher. Bubbles! Bubbles! suds suds suds
This happened to me when we lived in an apartment complex in Florida. I hadn't showered in three days and had been drinking a bit. The floor of the kitchen was covered in suds and I had nothing to clean it with and walked around the grounds looking. I saw some bikini'd girls at the complex pool and they were treated to the sight of a filthy, agitated drunk asking them 'ya seen a mop??"
I've been told my grand-dad did this with a clothes washer once. Of course that was back when clothes washers still counted as "new-fangled." (I also suspect whiskey was a factor.)
Aww, I wanna play. Too bad my dishwasher's broken.
Also, the reverse is true - dishwasher detergent is way too caustic to use as regular dish soap. Just in case anyone didn't know.
Anybody know where to find that video of a huge warehouse, and a test of the fire extinguishing foam, and they totally over built it, and the whole building fills up?
Ah yes, I learned that once. Despite having seen the Brady Bunch episode warning against such things.
No, no, no. What happened is Bobby poured an entire box of detergent into the washing machine. See here. I'm not a freak, I just remember that episode well.
Sadly, since it wasn't about dishwashers, I never learned the lesson until I ran out of dishwasher detergent and used regular dish soap. Then I went away for forty-five minutes. That's when the similarities to The Brady Bunch appeared.
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