My friend Mike was out of ice for his Morgan & Coke at an ungodly hour of the morning. So, he started chiseling frost off the inside wall of his refrigerator’s freezer with a steak knife. Needless to say, the knife gouged a hole in the freezer wall, breaking the refrigerator.

In addition, the venison that was stored in the freezer was placed in a cooler. Fast forward a couple weeks. The new fridge wasn’t purchased yet, and Mike got hungry. He remembered he had venison in the cooler, and fried some of it up. Have I mentioned the cooler wasn’t so much filled with ice? Obviously, the venison had thawed, and then some. Mike soon felt the kind of rumblings that Jeff Daniels experienced in Dumb and Dumber and ended up spending pretty much a full week shuttling between his bed and the bathroom.

Between the cost of the fridge and the unpaid time off from his job, the legend of the “$1500 Morgan & Coke” was born. Pass it along to your kids, won’t you?

There’s so many examples… we could create a fourteen-page list of famous last words in the Twin Cities sports scene. A few:

– Ron Gardenhire: “You know, how bad can Tony Batista really be?”
– Dwight Smith: “I bet nobody even goes in that stairwell.”
– Eddie Griffin: “I think I WILL get out of bed this morning.”
– Brad Childress: “They can’t possibly be expecting us to run to the left again.”
– Kevin McHale: “I bet even *I* could coach this team.”
– David Lockwood/Greg Hudson: “I’m just going to stick with the prevent defense for now.”