# Dumbest TV ad fine print warnings.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 18, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671 "2003-06-18T10:43:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671/41 "2003-06-22T01:48:44Z")

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> \*Attempt what!? To make a magical shrinking ray and go driving around the jungle? \*\*

Darn it! There go my plans for tomorrow. Now what am I supposed to use this magical shrinking ray gun on??? Sheesh, go and spoil all my fun, why don’t ya?

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671/42 "2003-06-22T04:08:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Faerie Nuff \*  
> \*\*I’m still trying to understand that commercial with that Macgyver (sp?) guy in it that’s for some kind of phone card. It shows people using it with payphones, but then the disclaimer at the bottom says that you’ll be charged 25 cents extra if you use it with a pay phone. So I can get this card and pay more to use a pay phone? Does that make sense to anyone? \*\*

From what I understand (or at least what the phone companies claim), it is an FCC mandated fee.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671/43 "2003-06-22T05:19:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by HPL \*  
> \*\*I remember that. Maybe Depression turns you into a sad little onion?
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> He looked like an Onion, to me, anyway. \*\*

Looks more like the Intel Inside logo to me. ^\_\_~

Hmm…maybe that’s the problem with my computer. It needs Zoloft.

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**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671/44 "2003-06-22T14:05:46Z")

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I’ve always had an strange affection for the “PRODUCT MAY BE HOT AFTER HEATING” that comes on my microwave Toad-in-the-Hole.

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**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-tv-ad-fine-print-warnings/182671/45 "2003-06-22T18:47:21Z")

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I always liked the disclaimer on the old “Guess Who?” boardgame ads: “Game cards to not actually talk”

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