If you are in some kind of school your teachers have probably told you that you are not supposed to eat next to your keyboard.
I can agree that it makes sense, but food is normally not liquid. Liquid is the keyboards worst enemy;
I have been breaking this rule ever since i sat in front of a computer and frankly I have had my accidents, (only breaking my own stuff, but still). About a week ago this wonderful luck stroked me once more:
I was reading some article on the web while eating my breakfast. Pure awesomeness made me push my half liter cup of milk over my keyboard and the rest of my desk. Brilliant! My first reaction was to pull the plug on the keyboard and try to put it upside down as far as it went, with the chord tangled, stuck inside a cable jungle I would have to rip it to make it let go.
After cleaning up the mess I tried to just wipe the milk of my keys and hopefully be able to use the keyboard still… (My keyboard is a old school Logitech G15 with LEDs under the keys) When I plugged it in it really seemed to work fine, but after some seconds it started to blink like crazy. I could type on it, but some of the keys did amazing stuff… I mean not that amazing, but every time i hit “a” a “z” followed… so typing “I’m enjoying a pie” would become “I’m enjoying az pie”
I decided to give it a shower in the old sink and let it dry off, (figured that it wouldn’t smell preferable over time anyhow.)
Putting the keyboard away to dry off, I dug up awful Microsoft keyboard with the delete and ins buttons all mixed up funny. I survived using it all the way till now. But now I am writing on my good old G15 again… and only problems is some buttons that do not work that I rarely use! 
Last time I made my keyboard a mess I fell asleep drinking beer next to it… my keyboard was hung over for weeks, but worked perfectly after (that time it constantly hammered F1 like it was calling for help :p)
Conclusion: Milk kills more Keyboard cells than alcohol every year!
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