You should have seen the dishwasher in Cambridge during IQP. Ian just figured (and I’m not sure I would have figured any differently) that half a bottle of Dawn plus regular detergent would REALLY get the stuck-on crap off our dishes.

Then a large foam monster made it about 8 feet out from the dishwasher onto the kitchen floor. I’ve never seen so many bubbles.

_Sander

Dude, that’s awesome.

Do you live upstairs from me? Cause the guy up there did the same thing at about 2am and made my ceiling leak. :(

…notice how only guys do these things?

Sexism alert! I’m a guy AND domestically oriented.

This little event just happens to be an example of the magical things that MikeD is capable of.

Dude! Your Dishwasher totally has rabies!

Hey now…
to be fair, how WOULD we known not to do this?

1. It’s not written anywhere on the label. Labels nowadays are 8 pages long in order to warn you not to put heavy construction equipment in your mouth, and Mike and I can’t have been the first to get this idea.
2. Nobody ever told us about this phenomenon. I know my mom was much too worried I had clean underwear to warn me about putting Dawn in the dishwasher.
3. There’s no way to know that dish detergent suds up 8000 times more than dishwasher detergent, what with the almost ludicrous lack of a viewing window on the dishwasher.

It didn’t seem too silly at the time.
And hey, we’re guys. Girls know how to properly clean dishes, guys know how to properly gap spark plugs. Though I may be speaking a bit soon for Mike (and the Acclaim to Fame).

_Sander

It’s called “hand dishwashing detergant” or “dishwasher detergent,” they specify for a reason.

Though Timmy and I had a mess like that the day the drain hose on our washer let go and dumped an entire load of water on the floor.

The same thing happens when you try to wash a muppet.

I had a dishwasher malfunction once… and it involved the opposite element: fire.

Yeah, my dishwasher caught on fire during operation once, which prompted my roommate to scream and call 911. And three dudes with firesuits and axes arrived pronto. Anyway, we had to get a new dishwasher.

Clearly, you don’t watch enough reality TV.

This exact thing happened on an episode of America’s Next Top Model.

I only know because my girlfriend told me. Seriously.