Note to self
When unable to blow out a candle by leaning over the table and blowing, do not pick the candle up and blow directly into it, unless you are willing to spend a minimum of 20 minutes cleaning dried wax from your goatee and glasses. Also, you are really stupid sometimes.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 07, 2005, at 06:37 PM
Comments (17)
Posted by: Daniel Jalkut at August 7, 2005 06:58 PM
happy birthday!
Posted by: dan at August 7, 2005 07:03 PM
What no photo?
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 7, 2005 07:44 PM
What no photo?
Admitting I picked up a big glass candle and blew into it -- completely forgoing that I learned about cause and effect in grade school -- should be enough.
Posted by: Brad at August 7, 2005 07:54 PM
Kyle, your girlfriend got wax in her goatee? =)
And a photo should be enough, but a picture would make it much more entertaining.
Posted by: Josette at August 7, 2005 08:17 PM
this post is worthless without pictures. i would be even more obnoxious and post the smilie, but i am going to restrain myself.
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 7, 2005 08:21 PM
Note to self: My readers have a schaudenfreud streak.
Posted by: St3ve at August 7, 2005 10:56 PM
schadenfreude
Posted by: Diggory Laycock at August 8, 2005 05:15 AM
handy trick - place one finger in front of the flame then blow at the finger - the airflow will go around both sides of the finger and put out the flame without excess wax splatter.
Posted by: 2.STL-DX.B11 at August 8, 2005 05:46 AM
I think the advice to all should not be to sully one's face with a goatee.
Posted by: Kim at August 8, 2005 07:11 AM
I think the advice to 2.STL-DX.B11 should not be to sully one's head with hair. :-)
-Kim
Posted by: 2.STL-DX.B11 at August 8, 2005 01:24 PM
Kim - At the rate mine is disappearing I think it may already not be far from that point. ;-)
Posted by: TJ Royall at August 8, 2005 03:24 PM
Similar note to self:
When blowing out the candles on a birthday cake, do not blow too hard, lest you blow hot candle wax all over your nice new 19" Dell flat-screen monitor.
Follow-up note:
Do not attempt to clean this wax off with ordinary monitor cleaning wipes. This will remove areas of the antireflective coating on the LCD, making the monitor look a bit on the blotchy side.
Follow-up follow-up note:
On further thought, just stop having birthdays. This eliminates the problem altogether.
Posted by: andrew atkinson at August 11, 2005 09:45 PM
congratulations... dare we ask how old one might be?
Posted by: Stephen Horner at August 16, 2005 06:33 AM
F**k man, I so did the same sh*t the other day; and yes I wear glasses and have a goatee. The tricky part was trying to remove the wax from my brand new glasses without scratching the lenses. What a nightmare . . .
Posted by: breanna at November 15, 2005 03:43 PM
i just did the same thing - candle wax on a powerbook g4 computer screen. what worked: scraping off as much of the wax as possible, and then kind of buffering it off with one of those lint-free cloths that you use to clean eyeglasses. it worked perfectly on the lcd. as for the body of the computer, i have to figure out something else...
LOL. My girlfriend did that once with a tall candle, we used a curling iron and paper towels to remove the wax.