So. Let’s suggest that a person owns a perfectly ordinary beverage container, holding two quarts (64 oz.), with a mouth about two inches in diameter, and a rectangular body about, oh, five inches by three and a half or so. It would be nine inches high, more or less. Clear plastic, sturdy, good for continued use.\n
Furthermore, let’s suggest that a person might have stored in said container a beverage, thus using it to its intended purpose. This beverage might have been something not entirely clear or for that matter perfectly free of solids. Say, iced tea. Or lemonade. An innocuous beverage, but not water. And let’s say that the beverage in question (perhaps apple cider) sat in the container for longer than had been foreseen. And furthermore, let’s suggest that the owner of the container in question had at last dumped out the dregs of the beverage, and wanted to clean the container for renewed use.\n
The opening, as we have seen, is too small to admit a hand, or even a medium-sized brush. A smallish brush could be introduced, but smallish brushes tend to have slender, short handles, so although the brush could perhaps be persuaded to lightly slide along the bottom of the container, dislodging the odd bit of gunk (gunk<\/I>, here, is a technical term, meaning something like disgusting detritus of some foul substance, not easily now identifiable, clinging to the stained plastic like the Very Persisent Gappers of Fripp stick to goats<\/i> but with greater specificity, as technical terms tend to be translated out of the jargon of their technicians only with a regrettable loss of specificity), there is no way to use force to actually scrub the interior surface clean.\n
So. A question for the class. Is the 2-quart container (still, I hasten to remind Gentle Readers, structurally sound) a loss? Show your work.\n
Answers involving vinegar and baking soda should include all appropriate environmental assessments. Answers involving OXO gear retailing more than four times the replacement cost of the original container should include links to appropriate government or private (foundation) grants. Answers involving not having left the whatever-it-was to rot in the fridge through exploitation of eddies in the space-time continuum should have already been submitted. Partial credit will be allotted to Gentle Readers who have a nice hot cup of cider for Your Humble Blogger ready to hand.\n
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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