Random Esquire

Ever since I have known Boss, we have remarked about the number of times a movie features someone throwing up.  It is amazingly frequent in movies.  Even if you can’t think of a movie off the top of your head that shows someone getting ill, chances are that if you think of five relatively recent films, you can’t be certain that someone wasn’t throwing up in at least one of them.  It’s everywhere.

I started to wonder what they use in movies for vomit so I did some poking around and found this page which gives instructions on whipping up a fresh batch.   It looks like it was written by a middle school kid because the author suggests adding green food dye…and he then suggests spreading it all over the bed so that you can enjoy a day off from school.  I love the warning that comes with it:  “Make sure you don’t get the food colouring on your clothes, it stains!”  But go ahead and spread that all over the bed, kids.

Frighteningly enough, there is a link on how to make fake diarrhea, as well.   Ingredients include coffee and maple syrup.  The author notes that it won’t smell like diarrhea, so “your acting will also need to be convincing.”  I’m not sure I’d believe that my kid had to stay home from school if it smelled like he made me breakfast in the bathroom.  Maybe it’s one of those fine line smells.  Again, the best part about this entry is the warning:

“Don’t put too much coffee in the mix. Too much coffee will look like blood and earn you a trip to the doctor rather than a day off of school.”

If I had a kid, he wouldn’t be allowed on the internet.