I always thought it was amusing that when I worked at a supermarket, our plastic bags said “Do not give to children as a toy”
We used to have fingerprint ink at work that among its various warnings contained “avoid skin contact”.
This is a little different, but bags of Kars nuts have a little “Did you know. . .” section on the back with facts about nuts on it. One of these facts is “Nuts are a natural food, not created in a lab.” :smack:
On a matchbook in my collection
WARNING
CONTAINS ADVERTISING
KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN
After all of these warnigs on ordinary products, you’s think that they’d put one on the 1920’s style death ray. Damn thing nearly put my eye out!
(Of course in the 1920’s they didn’t need warnings all over the place.)
“Various (PC) Computers / Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue”
Why is this a stupid message? In assembling various computers, I have occasionally forgotten to plug the keyboard in, gotten this message, plugged it in, and pressed F1. Exactly as intended.
If the key board is plugged in, but isn’t being detcted.
:wally
On claymore mines, one side says, “Aim toward enemy,” and the other side reads, “Do not eat.” Seriously. A friend of ours (and several ex-military folks The Cody knows) say it’s true, but it’s still so unbelievable.
The Cody: How is it possible to be so hungry that you try to eat a claymore mine? :dubious:
“Do not use toaster under water.”
Duuhhhh, Okay!
Yep, it was in the instructions.
Its probably not quite relevant, but some soldiers (esp. in Vietnam) made a habit of heating up their field rations by burning some C4. A favorite place to aquire said C4 was from claymore mines.
From here I’ll quote Dunnigan from “Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War”
Don’t know if that’s the reason for the short warning, but hey!
well , a heated towel rail is just a sort of central-heating radiator, should we have warnings on them as well?
We were eating soup at a restaurant yesterday when I noticed the little packets of crackers had warnings that “This product contains wheat.” OK, I know some people are allergic to wheat but still, duh! They’re crackers!
There are certain UK packets of peanuts that contain the legend
WARNING: SMALL CHILDREN CAN CHOKE ON NUTS
It’s nice that they’re taking the pedophile demographic into consideration.
Sorry. I’ll set myself on fire right now and save the devil the job.
Sounds reasonable. Some people are bound to apply it to their nads otherwise.
Little kids have been known to suffocate after playing in plastic bags.
Rexona deodorant for women–which comes in a slim, cylindrical can–has (or used to) bear the warning FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY. :eek:
If you’ve actually heard the details of that suit - I’ve seen them posted here - it wasn’t at all unreasonable or stupid.
Merry Christmas, little Johnnie. It’s a bucket 'o bags. Enough bags to last you oh about, well, how long can you hold your breath? 
Actually, I have a deer rifle bought in 1964. The instruction manual contains ZERO warnings. Evidently they assumed the buyer knew the pointy end was dangerous.
Didn’t you wonder why it was so hard to dry your hair that way, ya big dummy? 
On the heating wrapper in which one microwaves a Hot Pockets brand sandwich when one wants to heat said Hot Pockets brand sandwich in order to eat it, as per the instructions, it states quite clearly:
“Caution: Filling will be hot”
Well, good! That’s what I wanted. :dubious:
I wasin a local junk shop, and was attracted to the display of nutcrackers…you know, those fancy wooden ones in the shape of soldiers, swiss farmers, etc. Only these were not the made-in-Germany expensive ones…these were made in Chna ripoffs, priced at less than $10.00. On the bottom was a label:
“WARNING: For ornamental use only-may POISON food”!
How do I go about sueing these guys…I think I poisoned my walnouts! Is psychi distress good grounds for a lawsuit?
Also, I’ve been thinking about a warning label for bottles of liquore…how about this?
“WARNING; Excessive Consumption of the contents may lead to excessive consumption of the contents”!
Whaddaya think?