LOL Mrs. Olive, you really made my day ;-)

Well, way back, when my cousin (now a strapping 35-year-old) was still a toddler, my uncle was in the recently refurbished kitchen making him a dish of mashed liver in the blender. This was in the day and age before blenders were fitted with safety devices making sure that the lid is always securely in place, before the thing is willing to turn on.

So, when uncle forgot to put the lid on and just flipped the button, the blender started doing, what blenders are designed to do, and the contents of the container were splattered all over the kitchen - walls, cupboards and ceiling alike. Uncle spent the rest of the day cleaning the kitchen - with NO help from his furiuos "better half" ;-))