Fire! Hehehe...How to Burn Down a College Building
DantesInferno
11-30-2001, 02:40 AM
Hello Everyone. I felt compelled to share my evening with you, and instruct the general public on how to properly attempt to burn down a college building. Thursday evenings are always busy as I work two jobs back to back, which doesn't leave room for dinner. But tonight, I was able to manage my time efficiently enough so that I was able to grab a 'gourmet wrap' from a place downtown.http://forums.off-topic.net/images/smilies/yumyum.gif But I was short on time, so I didn't eat it, and I planned to do so after I went for a jog this evening. Work ended. I walked home in the freezing cold. I changed to go out for a jog, ended up power walking twice as far, and finally, chilled to the bone, I get back home to warm up dinner. :) Oh...but the adventure was only beginning. :rolleyes:
I went over to my neighbors to see if I could use her microwave. Being a close friend of mine, she agreed without hesitation. Now, you must understand that my dinner consisted of the wrap and some multi-colored tortilla chips all in a styrofoam container. I didn't think that putting styrofoam into the microwave would cause such problems. I put it on for three minutes. With about a minute and a half left on the timer, I began to smell something burning. I instantly turned to the microwave to see smoke coming out. I stopped the time, flung open the door and was greeted with billows of smoke. And it reeked! I pulled the container out of the microwave, and saw that the tortilla chips (which I had intended to take out before heating it up)...had started to catch on fire. I opened up the container and was confronted with a pile of burned, black, former tortilla chips, threatening to fall out of a severely large hole in the bottom of the container. There was so much smoke that it filled my neighbors place, and as she went running to open one window, I went running with the burning container in one hand to open a crank window with the other. Now, you must understand that the smoke alarms in the building are incredibly sensitive and the person who sets one off, whether by accident or not, is held personally responsible for any damages that occur...recently a student here launched a Nerf football in his dorm hall, which hit a sprinkler head and flooded the entire building...yep, $40,000 was attached to his tuition bill.
So, with the entire third floor filled with smoke, and the smoke drifting down the stairwell to the second floor, my neighbor and I began waving our arms around to try and dispell the smoke as best we could. At my neighbor's suggestion, we headed to the bathroom to throw the tortilla chips into the sink where we filled it up with water to stop the chips from burning. So here we are watching these multi-colored tortilla chips disintegrate in a sink full of water to burnt mush when our other neighbors come up the stairs and instantly start choking on the smoke and asking if there is a fire...While we promptly shouted "NO!"...we heard doors fly open downstairs as all the girls came out after smelling the smoke and started asking each other if there was a fire somewhere. Once the tortilla chips were fully extinguished, with the styrofoam container still in one hand, I began to drain the sink and scoop out the mush and put it into the garbage. Now, the container was still burning a bit, so I ran that under the water and threw it in the trash. The only thing salvaged was the wrap...which was as cold as it was when I put it into the microwave to heat up!!! Grr...but, at least it was still edible. However, I'm sitting here with my hands stained orange from the burnt tortilla chips, and they smell like burning styrofoam. :hehehe:
Once the smoke finally dispelled, and people stopped frantically searching for the 'fire', my friend and I decided that we needed to relax...and what a better way than to take a shot. Yeah, so it was bloody nasty...but we toasted to our slight mishap and called it a night!
This will not be forgotten anytime soon....:right:
I went over to my neighbors to see if I could use her microwave. Being a close friend of mine, she agreed without hesitation. Now, you must understand that my dinner consisted of the wrap and some multi-colored tortilla chips all in a styrofoam container. I didn't think that putting styrofoam into the microwave would cause such problems. I put it on for three minutes. With about a minute and a half left on the timer, I began to smell something burning. I instantly turned to the microwave to see smoke coming out. I stopped the time, flung open the door and was greeted with billows of smoke. And it reeked! I pulled the container out of the microwave, and saw that the tortilla chips (which I had intended to take out before heating it up)...had started to catch on fire. I opened up the container and was confronted with a pile of burned, black, former tortilla chips, threatening to fall out of a severely large hole in the bottom of the container. There was so much smoke that it filled my neighbors place, and as she went running to open one window, I went running with the burning container in one hand to open a crank window with the other. Now, you must understand that the smoke alarms in the building are incredibly sensitive and the person who sets one off, whether by accident or not, is held personally responsible for any damages that occur...recently a student here launched a Nerf football in his dorm hall, which hit a sprinkler head and flooded the entire building...yep, $40,000 was attached to his tuition bill.
So, with the entire third floor filled with smoke, and the smoke drifting down the stairwell to the second floor, my neighbor and I began waving our arms around to try and dispell the smoke as best we could. At my neighbor's suggestion, we headed to the bathroom to throw the tortilla chips into the sink where we filled it up with water to stop the chips from burning. So here we are watching these multi-colored tortilla chips disintegrate in a sink full of water to burnt mush when our other neighbors come up the stairs and instantly start choking on the smoke and asking if there is a fire...While we promptly shouted "NO!"...we heard doors fly open downstairs as all the girls came out after smelling the smoke and started asking each other if there was a fire somewhere. Once the tortilla chips were fully extinguished, with the styrofoam container still in one hand, I began to drain the sink and scoop out the mush and put it into the garbage. Now, the container was still burning a bit, so I ran that under the water and threw it in the trash. The only thing salvaged was the wrap...which was as cold as it was when I put it into the microwave to heat up!!! Grr...but, at least it was still edible. However, I'm sitting here with my hands stained orange from the burnt tortilla chips, and they smell like burning styrofoam. :hehehe:
Once the smoke finally dispelled, and people stopped frantically searching for the 'fire', my friend and I decided that we needed to relax...and what a better way than to take a shot. Yeah, so it was bloody nasty...but we toasted to our slight mishap and called it a night!
This will not be forgotten anytime soon....:right:
kris
11-30-2001, 02:46 AM
So, I take it I should never ask you to cook for me? http://forums.off-topic.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif
blatch
11-30-2001, 07:19 AM
Hey! At least you didn't have a normal day!
SmallTownDiva
11-30-2001, 02:26 PM
Man, oh man are you lucky that the fire alarms did not go off.....:D....and just like kb said....you are never going to cook for me!!! :D
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SmallTownDiva
12-01-2001, 12:59 AM
Okay, DantesInFerno and i were in the dinning hall and she had to use the mirowave to heat up some soup...now i told her it was a bad idea because of what had happened the night before....well nothing caught on fire or anything but she the soup was boiling in the bowl and it was so hot she could not bring it over to the table....that girl just can't seem to figure out mirowaves......:D
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DantesInferno
12-01-2001, 01:12 AM
Originally posted by SmallTownDiva
....that girl just can't seem to figure out mirowaves......:D
Ah...shut up. :flipa:
....that girl just can't seem to figure out mirowaves......:D
Ah...shut up. :flipa:
Heep
12-01-2001, 01:41 AM
I tried popping some microwave popcorn in a plastic bowl once...I opened the microwave door, the popcorn was all over the place, and the former bowl poured out of the microwave...:D
primera man
12-01-2001, 02:09 AM
Originally posted by Heep
I tried popping some microwave popcorn in a plastic bowl once...I opened the microwave door, the popcorn was all over the place, and the former bowl poured out of the microwave...:D
Why am i not supprised !!!
I tried popping some microwave popcorn in a plastic bowl once...I opened the microwave door, the popcorn was all over the place, and the former bowl poured out of the microwave...:D
Why am i not supprised !!!
gang$tarr
12-01-2001, 07:47 PM
Originally posted by Heep
I tried popping some microwave popcorn in a plastic bowl once...I opened the microwave door, the popcorn was all over the place, and the former bowl poured out of the microwave...:D
LOL hahaha, how old were you?
I tried popping some microwave popcorn in a plastic bowl once...I opened the microwave door, the popcorn was all over the place, and the former bowl poured out of the microwave...:D
LOL hahaha, how old were you?
speediva
12-01-2001, 08:40 PM
Originally posted by gang$tarr
LOL hahaha, how old were you?
G$: are you kidding? This was last week *lmao* :lol2:
j/k I don't know that for fact! ;)
Dante: I think I'd stay away from those George Foreman Grills just to be safe!
SmallTown: PLEASE keep her away from anything with a plug ;)
(and note to everyone whom I made fun of here: I'm just kidding around!)
LOL hahaha, how old were you?
G$: are you kidding? This was last week *lmao* :lol2:
j/k I don't know that for fact! ;)
Dante: I think I'd stay away from those George Foreman Grills just to be safe!
SmallTown: PLEASE keep her away from anything with a plug ;)
(and note to everyone whom I made fun of here: I'm just kidding around!)
AEstud
12-01-2001, 09:33 PM
dude thats alot to read...:bandit:
Rich
12-01-2001, 09:39 PM
Originally posted by saturntangerine
Dante: I think I'd stay away from those George Foreman Grills just to be safe!
Even if you were a good cook [no, im not saying ur not] Id suggest staying away from those damn grills too. There is nothing really that special about them, and there a waste of good money, IMO.
I have to make fun of those whenever I see the ad, the guy George Forman just changes the name and maybe a logo on it and sells it again. Theres like 5 versions of the:
George forman lean mean fat reducing grilling machine :rolleyes:
Whew...what a mouthful :D
Dante: I think I'd stay away from those George Foreman Grills just to be safe!
Even if you were a good cook [no, im not saying ur not] Id suggest staying away from those damn grills too. There is nothing really that special about them, and there a waste of good money, IMO.
I have to make fun of those whenever I see the ad, the guy George Forman just changes the name and maybe a logo on it and sells it again. Theres like 5 versions of the:
George forman lean mean fat reducing grilling machine :rolleyes:
Whew...what a mouthful :D
speediva
12-02-2001, 02:33 AM
:( I like the Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machines...
And I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that METAL cannot be microwaved either!!!!! :D
And I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that METAL cannot be microwaved either!!!!! :D
Rich
12-02-2001, 11:09 AM
Originally posted by saturntangerine
:( I like the Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machines...
And I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that METAL cannot be microwaved either!!!!! :D
Its ok that you like the Grilling machines, but I was just trying to point out that if you really like to cook, you can make the food just as good or better tasting, and as low in fat. I think George is just ripping ppl off, thats all. No disrespect meant towards ppl that have them and love them.
And about the Metal in Microwave thingy...I learned that the hard way 2 yrs ago when I was heating up some steaks on tinfoil, and there was a metal fork in there as well :eek: [it was late at night, and I was very tired after a 12hr shift pulling logs at the mill.]
It was an older microwave, and it didnt take too well to that kind of treatment. After about 20sec there was a light show going on in there. Sparks, small flames, and then the microwave died :( So...
1. Dinner was wrecked
2. Microwave was busted.
Now that was hard to explain to mom and dad when they came home from vacation, and the microwave was sitting beside the garbage can. :D Needless to say, I had to buy a new one :(
:( I like the Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machines...
And I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that METAL cannot be microwaved either!!!!! :D
Its ok that you like the Grilling machines, but I was just trying to point out that if you really like to cook, you can make the food just as good or better tasting, and as low in fat. I think George is just ripping ppl off, thats all. No disrespect meant towards ppl that have them and love them.
And about the Metal in Microwave thingy...I learned that the hard way 2 yrs ago when I was heating up some steaks on tinfoil, and there was a metal fork in there as well :eek: [it was late at night, and I was very tired after a 12hr shift pulling logs at the mill.]
It was an older microwave, and it didnt take too well to that kind of treatment. After about 20sec there was a light show going on in there. Sparks, small flames, and then the microwave died :( So...
1. Dinner was wrecked
2. Microwave was busted.
Now that was hard to explain to mom and dad when they came home from vacation, and the microwave was sitting beside the garbage can. :D Needless to say, I had to buy a new one :(
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