Did you ever......? (weird accident related)

who's_pearljam?

Did you ever get up out of your chair and have your little toe catch the pair of shoes that you just took off, dragging a shoe just far enough that the lace pulls the other shoe which catches the edge of a too long tablecloth that you finally got around to putting on your table to give it that element of panache, then the cloth moves just enough to start the glass of red wine a-tipping and when you reach for it, you nudge the edge of your nice hot plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce so that it flips over enough to slide off the table and to the multicolored oriental carpet and in the .04 milliseconds that this takes to happen you reach for the plate and trip enough to cause the adjacent chair to tip back just enough to knock over a guitar case that was leaning against the wall which falls sideways causing the guitar, somebody else's prized Gibson Es-355 hollowbody waiting for new pickups, that should have been IN the case, to fall forward so that it lands in the spaghetti sauce in just the right place so that the F holes and empty pickup holes in the front of the body receive red tomato sauce into them?




Yea,,,, me neither. Ok, well maybe once!


I don’t think even Steven Hawking could come up with a more complex physics reaction in his black hole theory!


Isn’t it amazing how one tiny nudge can cause a whole chain reaction that ends up being a whole lot of work!
I know something like this has happened to you! Well, I HOPE it's not just me!

decides2dream

let's just say i no longer eat salsa over the keyboard and leave it at that.

norm

i do this all the time.....something slips out of my hand and i try to catch it only to have it batted 10 feet in the air.....i try to catch it only to hit it 3 feet behind me.....then comes the dorthy hamil spin with a johnny bench snatch at it......:)

hope the guitar is ok.....:D

Poncier

This thread is useless without pictures (or even better video) .

norm

Poncier wrote:

This thread is useless without pictures (or even better video) .

coming from bob, i want to see charcoal renderings....:)

eMMI

amazing. plainly amazing.

luckily I've never managed that. *knocks on wood* but I think that it's due to 3 facts:
1) I don't have a tablecloth.
2) a guitar has never entered my flat (while I've been living there)
3) I don't drink red wine





I too hope the guitar is ok, should be though I reckon, now that it's fed and all.

shaggy15

.. slip on a bannana peel. i fell flat on my back

who's_pearljam?

I wish I HAD video of that stuff, but it all happens so fast. Maybe I need to do a reenactment! I did manage to clean the yummy sauce out of the guitar, though and it's ok.


Ok, I'll try a charcoal sketch.
Haha,,, I'll have smudges all over the wall and my face and I imagine I'll probably drop the charcoal on the guitar, too.

sennin

who's_pearljam? wrote:

Did you ever get up out of your chair and have your little toe catch the pair of shoes that you just took off, dragging a shoe just far enough that the lace pulls the other shoe which catches the edge of a too long tablecloth that you finally got around to putting on your table to give it that element of panache, then the cloth moves just enough to start the glass of red wine a-tipping and when you reach for it, you nudge the edge of your nice hot plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce so that it flips over enough to slide off the table and to the multicolored oriental carpet and in the .04 milliseconds that this takes to happen you reach for the plate and trip enough to cause the adjacent chair to tip back just enough to knock over a guitar case that was leaning against the wall which falls sideways causing the guitar, somebody else's prized Gibson Es-355 hollowbody waiting for new pickups, that should have been IN the case, to fall forward so that it lands in the spaghetti sauce in just the right place so that the F holes and empty pickup holes in the front of the body receive red tomato sauce into them?




Yea,,,, me neither. Ok, well maybe once!


I don’t think even Steven Hawking could come up with a more complex physics reaction in his black hole theory!


Isn’t it amazing how one tiny nudge can cause a whole chain reaction that ends up being a whole lot of work!
I know something like this has happened to you! Well, I HOPE it's not just me!

Believe me....I know how a little pebble can cause a big wave. :eek:



Sorry about the 355.....and it's F Holes.

who's_pearljam?

sennin wrote:

Believe me....I know how a little pebble can cause a big wave. :eek:



Sorry about the 355.....and it's F Holes.

The butterfly effect!
If a butterfly flaps its wings in the desert, it can cause a reaction that starts a tornado!

Here's a graph, and maybe I can do a reenactment and graph it with spaghetti sauce!

http://www.scientificblogging.com/graphics/Chaos%20Pattern.jpg

The guitar's fine and back leaning precariously against the wall.

sennin

who's_pearljam? wrote:

The butterfly effect!
If a butterfly flaps its wings in the desert, it can cause a reaction that starts a tornado!

Here's a graph, and maybe I can do a reenactment and graph it with spaghetti sauce!

http://www.scientificblogging.com/graphics/Chaos%20Pattern.jpg

The guitar's fine and back leaning precariously against the wall.

In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

I think you're on to something!

Keep experimenting.

MyHandsBound

who's_pearljam? wrote:

Did you ever get up out of your chair and have your little toe catch the pair of shoes that you just took off, dragging a shoe just far enough that the lace pulls the other shoe which catches the edge of a too long tablecloth that you finally got around to putting on your table to give it that element of panache, then the cloth moves just enough to start the glass of red wine a-tipping and when you reach for it, you nudge the edge of your nice hot plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce so that it flips over enough to slide off the table and to the multicolored oriental carpet and in the .04 milliseconds that this takes to happen you reach for the plate and trip enough to cause the adjacent chair to tip back just enough to knock over a guitar case that was leaning against the wall which falls sideways causing the guitar, somebody else's prized Gibson Es-355 hollowbody waiting for new pickups, that should have been IN the case, to fall forward so that it lands in the spaghetti sauce in just the right place so that the F holes and empty pickup holes in the front of the body receive red tomato sauce into them?




Yea,,,, me neither. Ok, well maybe once!


I don’t think even Steven Hawking could come up with a more complex physics reaction in his black hole theory!


Isn’t it amazing how one tiny nudge can cause a whole chain reaction that ends up being a whole lot of work!
I know something like this has happened to you! Well, I HOPE it's not just me!

Bob....things like that only happen to nerds in movies....

civ_eng_girl

This is why our parents always told us to put our shoes away!!

who's_pearljam?

MyHandsBound wrote:

Bob....things like that only happen to nerds in movies....

Well, at least I'm in good company!
Things like that happen to me a lot in the kitchen. Usually with yogurt or milk. it always wants to fly somehow!

Yup, Sennin, the chaos theory. Just watch me trying to do the end of the year paperwork for my business.

who's_pearljam?

civ_eng_girl wrote:

This is why our parents always told us to put our shoes away!!

That IS putting them away for me!

(see above chaos theory!)

MyHandsBound

who's_pearljam? wrote:

Well, at least I'm in good company!
Things like that happen to me a lot in the kitchen. Usually with yogurt or milk. it always wants to fly somehow!

Yup, Sennin, the chaos theory. Just watch me trying to do the end of the year paperwork for my business.

hehe...speaking of kitchen mishaps....once I had this natural peanut butter....well the oil seperates from the paste...and so I wanted to mix it ....so I got a hand held mixer, I stuck it in there and turned it on... I didnt have a good grip on the jar and it started spinning the peanut butter started flying everywhere I pull the mixer from the jar and it was still spinning and got more peanut butter everywhere.......by the time I looked around I had a huge mess to clean....I laughed....

I was making peanut butter and banana shakes that day....they shakes were delicious

Spunkie

On top of spagetti, all covered in cheese,
I lost more poor meat ball, when somebody sneezed....

It rolled off the table and onto the floor,
And then my poor meatball, it rolled out the door...

soulsinging

who's_pearljam? wrote:

Did you ever get up out of your chair and have your little toe catch the pair of shoes that you just took off, dragging a shoe just far enough that the lace pulls the other shoe which catches the edge of a too long tablecloth that you finally got around to putting on your table to give it that element of panache, then the cloth moves just enough to start the glass of red wine a-tipping and when you reach for it, you nudge the edge of your nice hot plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce so that it flips over enough to slide off the table and to the multicolored oriental carpet and in the .04 milliseconds that this takes to happen you reach for the plate and trip enough to cause the adjacent chair to tip back just enough to knock over a guitar case that was leaning against the wall which falls sideways causing the guitar, somebody else's prized Gibson Es-355 hollowbody waiting for new pickups, that should have been IN the case, to fall forward so that it lands in the spaghetti sauce in just the right place so that the F holes and empty pickup holes in the front of the body receive red tomato sauce into them?

no, but i'm pretty sure i've seen it in an abbott and costello routine

lucylespian

Ah, that made me laugh.

My version of the butterfly effect is somewhat different.
My acoustic has had it's headstock snapped off twice. the first time, I fell asleep at the wheel, veered off th road, and ran into a parked car. Needless to say, the guitar went through the windscreen, snappo, pretty understandable.
Glued it back on with Araldite, a few years went by, then I was hitch-hiking with it.
Got dropped off somewhere, leaned the guitar in soft case against tha car while I sorted out my pack, the guy drives off.
In slow-motion I watch my guitar drift to the ground - bang, fuck, snapped again.
Oh well, Araldite is cheap luckily, and 20 yrs later, the guitar is still going strong.

who's_pearljam?

MyHandsBound wrote:

hehe...speaking of kitchen mishaps....once I had this natural peanut butter....well the oil seperates from the paste...and so I wanted to mix it ....so I got a hand held mixer, I stuck it in there and turned it on... I didnt have a good grip on the jar and it started spinning the peanut butter started flying everywhere I pull the mixer from the jar and it was still spinning and got more peanut butter everywhere.......by the time I looked around I had a huge mess to clean....I laughed....

I was making peanut butter and banana shakes that day....they shakes were delicious

I've had a few blender accidents, too.
One night we were experimenting with strawberry margaritas and late in the evening after a few batches, someone left the top off the blender, and the next day there were chunks of strawberry all over on the walls and cabinets. Kind of a nice textured look, and better than those stencils or the painted tiles with pictures of fruit.

The Triple Sec made it stick nicely, too!

jamainiac

who's_pearljam? wrote:

Did you ever get up out of your chair and have your little toe catch the pair of shoes that you just took off, dragging a shoe just far enough that the lace pulls the other shoe which catches the edge of a too long tablecloth that you finally got around to putting on your table to give it that element of panache, then the cloth moves just enough to start the glass of red wine a-tipping and when you reach for it, you nudge the edge of your nice hot plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce so that it flips over enough to slide off the table and to the multicolored oriental carpet and in the .04 milliseconds that this takes to happen you reach for the plate and trip enough to cause the adjacent chair to tip back just enough to knock over a guitar case that was leaning against the wall which falls sideways causing the guitar, somebody else's prized Gibson Es-355 hollowbody waiting for new pickups, that should have been IN the case, to fall forward so that it lands in the spaghetti sauce in just the right place so that the F holes and empty pickup holes in the front of the body receive red tomato sauce into them?




Yea,,,, me neither. Ok, well maybe once!


I don’t think even Steven Hawking could come up with a more complex physics reaction in his black hole theory!


Isn’t it amazing how one tiny nudge can cause a whole chain reaction that ends up being a whole lot of work!
I know something like this has happened to you! Well, I HOPE it's not just me!

BoB! I'm glad you made it out of that alive!

Lisa aka Pebble

PJaddicted

How about Petey running away from some mean dogs, hitting me in the back of both knees and me flying 4 feet up in the air and then me landing flat on my arse!

How about riding my mountain bike past a puddle, trying to avoid riding in it, and having the bike just fall over with me on it.....in to the puddle? Same mountain bike heading down a hill, hitting a log, airborne and landing with my stomach punched in by the handle bars. Hubby really enjoyed both of these rides...he split a gut laughing!

Oh and snowboarding.....complete flips....but not the kind you are thinking of...there is no way I can describe what happened, but I'd sure love to talk to the guy who was watching

So how are you Bob???

oxc