I’m used to ice cubes popping in a drink, but this thing exploded all over the table.
A small temperature change will make an ice cube pop. What kind of temperature (ambient environment) change must be present to make a sliver of ice and its attached liquid pop out of a pint glass onto the kitchen table? Why (other than the fact that I don’t drink enough) have I never seen this before?
Ah, Chique,right?
Looks as though you answered your own question in your second paragraph,maybe you should drink a little less. Im guessing your talking about booze,that’ll do it every time.
Could have been from a large air pocket that was trapped in the ice cube?
Maybe a practical joke??? :smack:
Water is one of the few substances that expands as it freezes. In an ice-cube tray the water usually freezes from the outside in, causing a lot of stress as the confined core freezes. When you put the cube in a drink the surface melts first so you can get a sudden release of that stress, i.e. a pop.
(Caution! WAG follows!)
Under ideal freezing conditions, the expansion stress could be unusually high, and putting the cube in a drink (hot or cold, whichever is the ideal melting condition) could give a pop big enough to shatter the cube.
I have seen ice cubes split in a drink. but not so strongly as to spill the it. (Of course on a few occasions I managed to spill the drink myself (or on myself), but I was young and foolish at the time. If it was just the booze and not the ice, follow mitchythekid’s advice. 
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One time when I was going to get an ice cube out of the tray, I noticed that one of the ice cubes had what appeared to be a froze wave incorporated in it. What would cause this?
saluki fan,probably some kind of floaties,air bubbles,or sediments for your tap. 
I have also had an ice cube split and part of it leave the glass and land on the table. A most disconcerting thing to see, luckily I had a drink on hand to steady my nerves.
The OP wrote:
(OK, the OP didn’t really write that, but I’m sure it’s just an oversight. )
Get a plastic ice cube tray, fill it with water, and put it in the freezer. After maybe a half-hour or an hour, take it out. You want to have partially frozen cubes with water in the core. Give the tray a twist like if you were trying to loosen up frozen cubes. This will crack the cubes, and allow air into the liquid center. Holding the tray twisted seems to suck air into the cubes. Replace in freezer, and allow to freeze solid, then deliver to unsuspecting guests. 