When I was five, in the days before screw caps, I pulled a similar stunt with a corked bottle. They never DID entirely get the ginger ale stains out of the ceiling…
“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.”
Baste of time, I think.