How far can liquid spread?

So I was innocently sitting here, laptop on my lap, sending some necessary e-mails when I casually reached for my ever present cup of tea resting on the coffee table. Ordinarily not a problem but this evening, somehow, I bumped the mug against my computer screen and tea flew everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Sofa, table, bathrobe, slippers, carpet all caught their share. Of course my laptop got the full blast. I grabbed a stack of my nifty micro fiber cleaning cloths and sopped up everything I could. Evidently my computer is at least somewhat water proof (or tea proof?) because, once I mopped up the excess liquid, it continued working like nothing had happened except, when I pushed on the space bar, little poofs of tea would surface. That seems to have stopped now and all is well. Way to go Toshiba!